Alive
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
Plot
The film opens with a group of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team. Carlitos Páez points out several members of the team and reflects on the accident in a brief monologue.
Cast
- Bruce Ramsay
- Chad Willett
- Christian Meoli
- Danny Nucci
- David Cubitt
- Diana Barrington
- Ele Keats
- Ethan Hawke
- Gordon Currie
- Illeana Douglas
- Jack Noseworthy
- Jan D'Arcy
- Jason Gaffney
- Jerry Wasserman
- John Cassini
- John Haymes Newton
- John Malkovich
- José Zúñiga
- Josh Hamilton
- Josh Lucas
- Michael DeLorenzo
- Michael Woolson
- Richard Ian Cox
- Sam Behrens
- Vincent Spano
More details
| author | John Patrick Shanley |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Uruguay |
| director | Frank Marshall |
| editor | Michael Kahn William Goldenberg |
| events | aviation aviation accident human cannibalism |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | air force andes antonio tintin vizintin antonio vizintin bury carlitos páez eat end expect flight attendant force gap gustavo zerbino head injury injured learn medical student nothing old christians club old christians rugby team ration rescue roberto canessa roy harley starve stella maris college uruguayan air force flight 571 |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard |
| producer | Kathleen Kennedy Robert Watts |
| productionCompany | Touchstone Pictures |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| theme | biographical drama death disaster docudrama survival |