The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Acting
Franco carries 60 minutes of solo screen time.
Direction
Boyle makes a stuck man kinetic and hallucinatory.
Editing
Split-screens and flashbacks that never feel like cheats.
Director
Danny Boyle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James Franco kept the prosthetic arm and occasionally terrifies houseguests with it.
The real Ralston's video recordings exist; Boyle and Franco studied them but chose not to replicate his actual delirium, opting for cinematic hallucination instead.
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