Home
127 Hours

Page

127 Hours

Summary
How to watch
News & features

❚ We may earn commission from links on this page. Our editorial is always independent (learn more).

Watch trailer

02:49

127 Hours

Name: 127 Hours
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2010
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clémence Poésy, Lizzy Caplan

Save

Documentary
Drama

2010
Danny Boyle
89 mins
15

Summary

Drama based on a true story, directed by Danny Boyle and starring James Franco. While solo climbing in Utah, Aron Ralston falls into a crevasse and becomes trapped by a falling boulder. As time slips by, he resigns himself to the fact that his survival depends on resorting to desperate measures.

IMDB

Review

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Adam Smith

In 2003 hiker Aron Ralston embarked on a wilderness jaunt in a Utah national park, without informing anyone where he was going. But a freak accident saw him become quite literally stuck between a rock and a hard place - trapped by his forearm between a boulder and a cliff-face. Over the next six days (the 127 hours of the title), with no sign of rescue and his water having run out, the brutal solution to his ghastly predicament became increasingly clear. Director Danny Boyle re-creates this true story of survival with incredible brio. By using flashbacks, hallucinations and kinetic editing, Boyle transforms a necessarily static situation into a collage in which we get to see a man pondering his imminent demise and discovering whether he has what it takes to save himself. Star James Franco matches Boyle's technical brilliance with a mesmerising depiction of Ralston's strange internal journey. The squeamish should be warned that Boyle does show the gory conclusion, but because of some of the most innovative sound design of recent years, you may want to cover your ears as well as your eyes.

imdb-square

7.5/10