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Klawans, Stuart | February 15, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on the motion picture "Alive." The film is the story of the survivors of an airplane crash who held out for ten weeks on a peak in the Andes without provisions and in subzero weather, thereby giving United States audiences a concentrated image of what they have themselves been enduring for the past twelve years. The script by John Patrick Shanley, based on the book of the same name by Piers Paul Read, plunges you into a situation of unimaginable extremity, in which people are driven to behave-exactly as they have behaved in a zillion other platoon movies.

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ALIVE (Film); MOTION pictures; SHANLEY, John Patrick; MOTION picture industry; AUDIENCES; CULTURAL industries; UNITED States
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