When a cave in threatens the lives of four miners, including a father and son, it becomes a fight for survival. The superintendent (Mimi Rogers) struggles against the ticking clock to save her crew and family from impending doom.
Practical Effects
Actual New Zealand mining locations give surprising authenticity.
Acting
Mimi Rogers commits harder than this script deserves.
Director
Rex Piano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual New Zealand mining regions; several extras were real miners. Director Rex Piano mostly worked as a cinematographer before this rare directing credit.
Released just months before the real 2004 Pike River Mine disaster, making its Kiwi setting accidentally prescient. The film was largely forgotten until internet ironists resurrected it in the 2020s.
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