

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.
Practical Effects
They shot on a real mountain. In Argentina. In winter. Masochists.
Acting
Ethan Hawke's 'I'm becoming a mountain man' arc is unhinged in the best way.

Director
Frank Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real survivors visited set and some even cameo as Andes plane crash victims in the opening. Meta much?
This film arrived during a brief 90s obsession with survival cannibalism (see also: Ravenous), reflecting anxieties about civilization's thin veneer post-Cold War.