Movie

Alive

1993 · 127 min

A harrowing, quietly dignified ordeal of cold and hunger that grips you with dread and leaves you moved by endurance.

Tagline: The triumph of the human spirit.
Overview: 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.
How it feels: Bleak, tense, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Survival, death, grief, faith
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
death
grief
faith
loyalty
Places: wilderness
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none