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- 1993
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1993
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Summary A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.
Directed By: Frank Marshall
Written By: Piers Paul Read, John Patrick Shanley
- 1993
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1993
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Alive
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7.4
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Summary A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.
Directed By: Frank Marshall
Written By: Piers Paul Read, John Patrick Shanley
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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41% Positive
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59% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
56
41% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
59% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Negative
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While Alive is a superb ensemble piece with a half dozen other notable performances, its strength lies with its spirituality. [15 Jan 1993, p.8]
Unlike the cheapie late-1970s Mexican exploitation movie Survive!, this sobering account of a 1972 Andes plane crash has a spiritual quality that makes the tougher aspects of the story easier to handle. [15 Jan 1993, p.16]
Pictorially, Alive is breathtaking. But there's no real exploration of character or primal drives. [15 Jan 1993, p.48]
It's a well-meaning picture, but it doesn't have enough imagination to become as involving as it would like. [22 Jan 1993, p.11]
Director Frank Marshall mounts the story as tastefully as possible, given the subject matter, but it never seems to have much point and is sometimes unintentionally silly.
Marshall is a good technician, but there's no sense of artistic adventure in his sometimes exciting, sometimes draggy movie.
Frankly, those wonderfully corny old high-in-the-sky Airport movies were more dramatically satisfying than this, a barren adaptation of Piers Paul Read's nonfiction bestseller, directed by Frank Marshall.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
7.4
70% Positive
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Awards
Australian Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
