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

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

A crowd of boisterous rugby players get a bit of a shock when the plane they are travelling on has an argument with a mountain top in the Andes, and next thing they know they are sheltering in what is left of their aircraft high in the snow-capped terrain with many dead around them and with very lit...

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