Alive
Alive is a 1993 American survival drama film directed by Frank Marshall, and based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, about a Uruguayan rugby team's experience in 1972 after Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountains. Filmed in the Purcell Mountains in British Columbia, the film was written by John Patrick Shanley, narrated by John Malkovich, and stars Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Spano, Bruce Ramsay, John Haymes Newton, Illeana Douglas, and Danny Nucci. One of the survivors, Nando Parrado (portrayed by Hawke in the film), served as the technical advisor for the film.
Plot
A group of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team are seen as 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 | Andes Uruguay |
| director | Frank Marshall |
| editor | Michael Kahn William Goldenberg |
| events | 1972 Andes flight disaster aviation aviation accident human cannibalism |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | air force antonio tintin vizintin antonio vizintin bury carlitos páez eat end expect flight attendant force gap gustavo zerbino head injury injured joke 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 | Franz Schubert James Newton Howard |
| producer | Kathleen Kennedy Robert Watts |
| productionCompany | Touchstone Pictures |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Purcell Mountains |
| theme | biographical drama death disaster docudrama survival |