Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 3
Stranded is a thoroughly uplifting account of the well-known tragedy, with touching testimony from remaining survivors.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
Stranded is a thoroughly uplifting account of the well-known tragedy, with touching testimony from remaining survivors.
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The events that followed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1974 are, by now, notorious. The survivors, members of a rugby team left to fend for themselves in the Andes, ultimately resorted to cannibalism for the sake of survival, devouring the flesh of their dead companions. As a result, 16 men (of the initial 45) managed to stay alive on a frozen glacier for an incredible ten weeks. The story prompted a best-selling nonfiction tome by Piers Paul Read, a 1993 feature dramatization
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Stranded is remarkable documentary filmmaking, unflinching and full of unlikely grace.
Top CriticA tale of horror, heroism, unimaginable physical challenges, and, yes, cannibalism, Stranded offers the kind of real-life drama that can't help but bring up notions of God, fate, and nature's imposing will.
Stranded is a magnificent achievement: a true nonfiction epic that makes its predecessors seem puny. What were the Academy Awards voters thinking when they recently rejected it from this year's documentary competition?
Can you call a movie 'feel-good' if it includes an aviation disaster, a deadly avalanche, and human cannibalism? That's the paradox of the grueling yet ultimately exhilarating Stranded.
A film impossible to forget.
We are a bit less fraudulently sure of ourselves afterward.
a gripping tale of rescue and escape from death
An uplifting tale of triumph over nature and a moving tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit.
... a serious documentary which is respectful of the feelings of all concerned, and gives the survivors ample time to explain their choices.
Suspenseful and powerful.
The movie far outdistances the two earlier, partially fictionalized film accounts of the incident and goes against expectations at every turn to be an eerie, unsettling and strangely inspiring survival epic.
It's more disturbing than a fiction film could get. If you love true-life survival stories... this is the ultimate one! Unbelievable!
Far too long at 126 minutes, "Stranded" adds little to what we have already been told about this heroic tale of survival. First hand accounts of cannibalism are handled deftly and with respect, but that is not enough to carry an entire film
I...encourage anyone who appreciates a fascinating, exciting and well-told true story to see this film.
"Stranded" may be the ultimate tale of survival, but Arijon's film is distinctly spiritual.
In Stranded, the endless whiteness of the plane crash survivors' new environment comes to reflect and affect their evolving "society."
An uplifting tale of triumph over nature and a moving tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit.
This is a well-known story, told in multiple feature films, books, and 'Where are they now?' human-interest news items. It's no exaggeration to say that Gonzalo Arijon's Stranded is the definitive version.
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