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Alive (1993)

After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.

Alive (1993)
Alive
R
Adventure
Biography
Drama
Release Date
January 15, 1993
Director
Frank Marshall
Cast
Ethan Hawke , Vincent Spano , Josh Hamilton , Bruce Ramsay , John Newton
Runtime
2hr 8min
Main Genre
Adventure
Writers
John Patrick Shanley , Piers Paul Read
Studio
Film Andes S.A., Paramount Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Tagline
They survived the impossible...by doing the unthinkable.

Summary

In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the 16 survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.

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