Alive Page #5

Synopsis: In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.
Director(s): Frank Marshall
Production: Buena Vista
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
1993
120 min
3,317 Views


- All right, Eduardo, see these?

- Little shoes.

- Little red shoes. Take this one.

When these are a pair again, you're

going to be going home. All right?

All right. Let's do it!

Where'd you learn about transmitters?

I didn't. I helped my cousins

put together their stereos.

- Now I'm the radio man.

- Our lives depend on this.

Who asked you? Don't upset me!

I'm emotional as it is.

- Come on. Leave him alone.

- Let's go.

Wait till you see...

You're not gonna believe it!

Chocolate!

Sweaters!

Clean underwear!

A comic book I haven't read!

Toothpaste!

Delicious!

This is a pretty good story.

Maybe we should just keep walking

tomorrow.

What? We take the batteries back

and send an SOS. That's it.

All this time,

the taiI was three hours away.

Maybe we should just walk to Chile.

What? You're talking sh*t. We don't

have the equipment. We would die.

No, we bring the batteries back

and transmit an SOS. That's it.

One, two, three...

That isn't going to work.

- I don't know.

- We should walk...

I'm not killing myself walking

into the mountains. It's a stupid...

All right. This is what we'll do.

- We'll bring the radio here.

- We can't hook up a radio.

- We'll bring Roy.

- I don't want to go.

- We know nothing about radios.

- I don't either!

I don't know what these wires are!

I only built a stereo!

- We had a booklet.

- You're going!

You take it. You're smarter than me!

I don't want to go up in the snow.

I don't want to go!

How much further is it?

We've been walking a long time!

I don't have any strength, you know?

I feel sick and weak.

- I wish he'd shut up.

- This was your idea.

- Careful!

- Sorry.

Burn something else.

It'll be dark soon. I'm going to wrap

this round my legs to be warm.

- Goddamn it!

- That was you.

Why don't you give up?

We'll make a fire.

Tintin, let's make a fire.

This stuff worked good.

I feel snug as a bug.

- What should we do?

- Fix the radio.

- If we can't?

- It won't work.

- When it does, no thanks to you!

- I never said...!

If it doesn't work,

what should we do? Tintin?

I don't know.

Whatever you two decide.

Mister Switzerland!

- If the radio doesn't work, we...

- I'm not climbing those mountains!

Then I'll go without you.

You'll die. You'll freeze to death.

No, I won't. There's enough of this

stuff here to make a sleeping bag.

Look at this! Look.

Look at that cake.

Are we going the right way?

I think so.

- Come on!

- I can't!

- You know you can!

- Leave me!

We've got to keep going! If we get

caught in this at dark, we're dead.

- Go ahead!

- What about Roy?

You go on. I'll get Roy to the plane!

- I told you winter wasn't over!

- Leave me!

- Come on!

- I can't walk!

I can't carry you.

You'll kill us both!

I can't!

What do you mean you can't?

You piece of sh*t!

You can't tell me you can't do it!

Get up and walk ten steps.

- Get up and walk!

- All right!

It's them!

- Did the radio work?

- No.

- Where's Nando?

- I don't know.

Come on! Come on!

- Here!

- Thanks.

Didn't you see him? Federico's dead!

- No good.

- What do you mean no good?

Try to sleep.

- He's bad.

- What's the matter with him?

Are you surprised?

How long can people live like this?

Carlitos

says the sleeping bag's ready.

- No.

- Yes. It's time to go.

We almost died in that storm.

Winter's not over! Listen to me.

You have the will,

but I have the brains.

I say wait till the bag's ready.

- The bag is ready!

- It's not ready!

Rafael's dead.

It's time to go, Roberto. It's time.

Before we turn into animals.

All right.

I still got the shoe!

I still got mine.

- God be with you. You'll be OK.

- Thanks.

- Wait!

- Carlitos, let them go.

I forgot to say I had a dream last

night, a tremendous premonition.

I saw green fields and flowers.

I could smell the grass.

Your expedition will succeed.

Don't forget the pizza!

Here you go.

That looks like a good place to camp,

right up there.

I think this is the top.

- Maybe this leads somewhere.

- Be careful.

Help, please!

You'll fall too!

Hang on! Give me the strap!

I'll get you. Now hold on!

Hold on!

You got me?

- Hold on!

- I got you.

Hurry!

- You got me?

- Yes.

- Hurry up!

- Hang on!

Now get me up!

Grab hold of me.

Pull yourself! Go over me!

So what do you think?

You want to try the other way?

- You ready, Roberto?

- You see that line?

- That's a road.

- I can't see anything.

Do you see it, Tintin?

I see a line.

I don't know if it's a road.

- I think we should go back.

- Go back?!

Yeah. This mountain's too high.

- What do we do if we go back?

- Go to the road.

- It might be a road, it might not.

- I've the best eyes. That's a road.

- I'm going back.

- I'm going on.

- What are you going to do, Tintin?

- I don't know.

How about this? We leave the stuff

with you, we go to the top and see.

- Will you wait for us, Roberto?

- All right.

Then I'm going back.

I'm going to see a valley, a river.

I'm going to see green trees

and hills.

Go back and get Canessa.

Tell him it's going to be all right.

Tell him to come up

and see for himself.

- Nando's at the top.

- Did you get there?

No, but he says it's marvellous.

I have to rest.

Mountains! Nothing but mountains.

We've had it!

We've completely had it!

No, we haven't.

Going through these mountains

somewhere, there's a green valley.

See those mountains?

There's no snow on them.

They must be 50 miles away.

You think you can walk 50 miles?

- If we have to, we will.

- I can't.

- Yes, you can.

- I can't.

I'm not as strong as you.

You know what it is that we've lived

this long, the way we have? 70 days?

That we climbed up here?

Know what it is?

It's impossible.

It's impossible and we did it.

I know.

I'm proud to be a man

on a day like this - alive!

That I lived to see it,

and see it

in such a place, take it in!

I love you, man! Look!

It's magnificent.

It's God.

It'll carry us over every stone,

I swear! I swear to you.

We'll get Tintin. We'll send him back

to the plane and take his extra food.

You see? You see

where the sun's going to set?

That way's west.

And to the west are the green

valleys of Chile.

We're gonna die, you know?

Maybe. But if we die,

we're gonna die walking.

Good luck!

We're going home!

And so we were saved.

Nando and Canessa breached

the Andes and we were saved.

Later, a group went back

and buried the bodies.

They built a rough stone altar

by the grave,

and over it

they placed an iron cross.

There's nothing more I can tell you.

We were brought together

by a grand experience.

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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. His play Doubt: A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. more…

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