127 Hours (2010)

127 Hours rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 423K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic82%

TMDb7.1/10· 8K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 82/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About 127 Hours

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Cast of 127 Hours

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  James Franco

  as Aron Ralston

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  Kate Mara

  as Kristi Moore

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  Amber Tamblyn

  as Megan McBride

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  Clémence Poésy

  as Rana

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  Lizzy Caplan

  as Sonja Ralston

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  Kate Burton

  as Aron's Mom

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  Treat Williams

  as Aron's Dad

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  Sean Bott

  as Aron's Friend

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  Fenton Quinn

  as Blue John

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  John Lawrence

  as Brion

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  Pieter Jan Brugge

  as Eric Meijer

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  Rebecca C. Olson

  as Monique Meijer

127 Hours facts

Budget

$18M

Box office

$35.7M

Our take on 127 Hours

Danny Boyle turns a single, unbearable predicament into propulsive cinema. Based on the true ordeal of climber Aron Ralston, whose arm is pinned by a fallen boulder in a remote Utah canyon, this 2010 survival drama-thriller finds astonishing kinetic energy in near-total confinement. Boyle uses fractured editing, flashbacks and hallucination to open up a story that could have felt static, keeping you inside one man's dwindling options. It rewards viewers who like character-driven endurance tales and don't mind visceral intensity. If you want a lean, sensory portrait of resilience rather than an action spectacle, this is a gripping ninety minutes of clinging to life.