Alive (1993)
The triumph of the human spirit.
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Alive rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.1/10· 68K votes
Rotten Tomatoes63%
Metacritic56%
TMDb6.896/10· 2K votesWith 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 56/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Alive
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
Cast of Alive
Josh Hamilton
as Roberto Canessa
Bruce Ramsay
as Carlitos Páez
Ethan Hawke
as Nando Parrado
Vincent Spano
as Antonio Balbi
John Newton
as Antonio Vizintín
David Kriegel
as Gustavo Zerbino
Kevin Breznahan
as Roy Harley
Sam Behrens
as Javier Methol
Illeana Douglas
as Lilliana Methol
Jack Noseworthy
as Bobby François
Christian J. Meoli
as Federico Aranda
Jake Carpenter
as Alberto Artuna
Alive facts
- Budget
- $32M
- Box office
- $36.7M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •True survival story provides incredible dramatic stakes
- •Andes crash tragedy treated with appropriate gravity and respect
- •Ensemble cast portrays human resilience and moral complexity
What the audience disliked
- •Sensitive subject matter handled with occasional melodramatic excess
- •Pacing occasionally prioritizes spectacle over character moments
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