Eight Below movie

Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.

Eight Below is a Walt Disney Pictures film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio, which was released on February 17, 2006 in the United States. It was rated PG for some peril and brief mild language.BackgroundThe 1958 ill-fated Japanese expedition to Antarctica inspired the 1983 hit movie Nankyoku Monogatari. Eight Below is the fictional re-interpretation of the true events of the 1958 occurrence.PlotJerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr.

Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives at the base and presses Shepard to take him to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so against his own intuition, which tells him that it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling in a crevasse, Shepard tells his boss and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne but are immediately called back to base camp due to an approaching storm. McClaren begs for some time, and Shepard gives him half a day.Shepard pauses to patch up one of the dogs (Old Jack) whose paw is bleeding. McClaren, while walking around to get a better radio connection with base, slides down an embankment when a soft ledge gives way. His landing at the bottom cracks the thin ice and McClaren ends up breaking through.

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Eight Below Cast

• August Schellenberg
• Belinda Metz
• Bruce Greenwood
• Connor Christopher Levins
• Dan Ziskie
• Daniel Bacon
• Duncan Fraser
• Gerard Plunkett
• Jason Biggs
• Laara Sadiq
• Malcolm Stewart
• Michael David Simms
• Moon Bloodgood
• Wendy Crewson