A taut, literate tale of civilized men pitted against implacable nature, encumbered by a meaningless and not especially enticing title. Diffident, distrustful billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) joins his supermodel wife (Elle Macpherson)
and macho fashion photographer Bob Green (Alec Baldwin) for a jaunt to the Alaskan wilderness. Morse, Green and photo assistant Stephen (Harold Perrineau) go off on what's meant to be a quick detour in search of local color, but a bloody mid air encounter with a flock of birds downs their prop
plane, kills the pilot and strands the survivors in the frigid wilderness. New Zealand director Lee Tamahori -- who stumbled with h...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
121 mins