Alive

1993

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller

49
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 63% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 68144 68.1K

based on a true story airplane wreck based on true story rugby survival stranded

Director

Frank Marshall Photo
Frank Marshall

Top cast

Ethan Hawke Photo
Ethan Hawke as Nando Parrado
John Malkovich Photo
John Malkovich as Old Carlitos / Narrator
Jerry Wasserman Photo
Jerry Wasserman as Co-Pilot
Vincent Spano Photo
Vincent Spano as Antonio Balbi
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1.14 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 4
2.33 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 13
1.13 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 5
2.25 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fredrikgunerius 7 / 10

Alive cannot avoid some B-movie sensibilities

The riveting story of the Uruguayan rugby team who had to find unorthodox methods for survival after their chartered plane crashed into the Andes en route to an away game in Chile in 1972 is relatively well adapted to the big screen by Steven Spielberg's regular partners Frank Marshall (director) and Kathleen Kennedy (producer). Marshall directs the air disaster brilliantly, but cannot avoid some B-movie sensibilities in the film's first part. He is an old-school director, meaning that even the interpersonal elements - which are the most interesting part of the story - come off as action-driven. I suspect the film may have made more of a lasting impression had they been made to carry the script to a larger degree. Still, once Ethan Hawke's character finds his footing, the film becomes truer, more poignant and a tad less Hollywoodized. Alive may well derive a large part of its effectiveness from the fact that it's based on real events, but it's effective nonetheless.
Reviewed by KaseyB12 7 / 10

I watched it as a kid, rewatched it after watching Society Of The Snow...

I watched this when I was a kid and probably far too young for this type of a movie. It was scary back then especially being forced to eat people to survive. I recently watched Society Of The Snow with the English dub on Netflix it was really great and very heartbreaking. I think it's everything that Alive was lacking. I will say Alive was a great attempt to tell a very difficult story though so without comparing it to Society Of The Snow, it's a good movie and still shows you what the human spirit can do to survive but if you really want to feel the horror of what happened to this rugby team, then check out Society Of The Snow.
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