Whiteout (2009)

Director:

Dominic Sena

Writers:

Jon Hoeber (screenplay) &
Erich Hoeber (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

11 September 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

See Your Last Breath.

Plot:

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months. |

Plot Keywords:

Antarctica | Aurora Australis | Frozen Body | Based On Comic Book | Slit Throat

Cast

Kate Beckinsale	...	Carrie Stetko
Gabriel Macht	...	Robert Pryce
Tom Skerritt	...	Dr. John Fury
Columbus Short	...	Delfy
Alex O'Loughlin	...	Russell Haden
Shawn Doyle	...	Sam Murphy
Joel S. Keller	...	Jack (as Joel Keller)
Jesse Todd	...	Rubin
Arthur Holden	...	McGuire
Erin Hickock	...	Rhonda
Bashar Rahal	...	Russian Pilot
Julian Cain	...	Russian Co-pilot
Dennis Keiffer	...	Russian Guard #1
Andrei Runtso	...	Russian Guard #2
Roman Varshavsky	...	Russian Guard #3
Steve Lucescu	...	Mooney
Paula Jean Hixson	...	Lab Tech
Craig A. Pinckes	...	Aircraft Tech (as Craig Pinckes)
Sean Tucker	...	Operations Tech
Marc James Beauchamp	...	Weiss
Nick Villarin	...	Newbie
Louis Dionne	...	Man in Hall
Patrick Sabongui	...	Miami Prisoner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeremie Campbell	...	Control Room Tech
Sarah Murphy-Dyson	...	Lab Assistant (uncredited)

Directed by
Dominic Sena

Writing credits
Jon Hoeber		(screenplay) &
Erich Hoeber		(screenplay) and
Chad Hayes		(screenplay) &
Carey Hayes		(screenplay) (as Carey W. Hayes)
Greg Rucka		(graphic novel) and
Steve Lieber		(graphic novel)

Produced by
Don Carmody	....	executive producer
Susan Downey	....	producer
David Gambino	....	producer
Steve Richards	....	executive producer
Greg Rucka	....	executive producer
Joel Silver	....	producer

Original Music by
John Frizzell

Cinematography by
Christopher Soos		(director of photography) (as Chris Soos)

Film Editing by
Martin Hunter

Casting by
Mary Gail Artz
Shani Ginsberg

Production Design by
Graham 'Grace' Walker

Art Direction by
Gilles Aird
Martin Gendron
Jean Kazemirchuk

Costume Design by
Wendy Partridge

Makeup Department
Corald Giroux	....	key hair stylist
Erik Gosselin	....	key makeup effects artist
Teressa Hill	....	department head hair: New Deal Studios/Streamline
Amanda Kuryk	....	makeup artist
Gaétan Landry	....	hair stylist
Brenda Magalas	....	first assistant makeup artist
Magali Métivier	....	makeup artist
Doug Morrow	....	special makeup effects artist
Bridget O'Neill	....	makeup department head: New Deal Studios
Jean-Michel Rossignol	....	sculpting/painting: special makeup effects unit
Jean-Michel Rossignol	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Michael Cowles	....	unit manager
Ronald Gilbert	....	production manager
Deb LeFaive	....	production manager: Manitoba

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Megan Basaraba	....	second second assistant director: Manitoba
Marielou Bélisle-Pierre	....	second second assistant director
Doug Carter	....	second assistant director (additional photography)
Renato De Cotiis	....	second assistant director: second unit
Mathew Dunne	....	first assistant director: opening sequence
Larry D. Katz	....	key second assistant director: Los Angeles
Bethan Mowat	....	second assistant director
Craig A. Pinckes	....	first assistant director
Brian Smrz	....	second unit director: opening sequence

Art Department
Caroline Alder	....	assistant art director
Alp Altiner	....	visual effects art director
Enrico Altmann	....	carpenter
Benoit Camerlain	....	assistant painter
Jessee J. Clarkson	....	carpenter
Katia Kim Depatie	....	assistant property master
Katia Kim Depatie	....	props maker
Carrie Foster	....	art department coordinator
Alain Giguère	....	head scenic painter
Denis Hamel	....	property master
David Hogan	....	storyboard artist
Chris Klein	....	scenic painter
Alexis Labra	....	on-set dresser
Brent Lambert	....	set designer
Jean-François Merlot	....	scenic painter
Jamie Lou Morneau	....	art department assistant
Steve Newburn	....	carpenter
David Nicholson	....	on-set dresser: reshoots
Scott Schneider	....	digital set designer: New Deal Studios
Bill Sinosich	....	scenic carpenter
Phillip Tellez	....	construction coordinator
Yanick Veilleux	....	set dresser
Remi Verfaillie	....	lead dresser

Sound Department
Christopher Alba	....	foley supervisor
Josee Bernard	....	cable person
Vincent Guisetti	....	foley artist
Pamela Kahn	....	foley artist
Matthew W. Kielkopf	....	apprentice sound editor
Mark Larry	....	supervising sound editor
Cliff Latimer	....	dialog & adr editor
Louis Marion	....	location sound mixer
Marla McGuire	....	foley editor
Jason Oliver	....	adr recordist
Louis Piche	....	boom operator
Kyle Rochlin	....	foley mixer
Sacha Rosen	....	cable puller: Manitoba
Gerard Vernice	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Gaspar Brabant	....	special effects technician
Adam Charbonneau	....	special effects assistant
Yvon Charbonneau	....	special effects technician
Francis Choquette	....	special effects technician
Louis Craig	....	special effects supervisor
Mario Dumont	....	special effects workshop supervisor
Karim El Fassi	....	special effects assistant
Stephen Gilbert	....	special effects department coordinator
Bernard Guay	....	special effects assistant
André Laforest	....	special effects best boy
Denis Lavigne	....	special effects department coordinator
Pierre L'Heureux	....	special effects technician
David Loveday	....	effects breakaway props & safe weapons
Erick Nyhuis	....	special effects assistant
Pascal Pelletier	....	special effects assistant
Pierre 'Bill' Rivard	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
Mathieu Archambault	....	digital compositor
Ioan Balcosi	....	compositor
Sarah Barber	....	visual effects coordinator: Mr. X Inc.
Eran Barnea	....	additional visual effects
Jeff Barnes	....	production executive: CafeFX
Patrice-Alain Barrette	....	technical support: Hybride
Michel Barrière	....	compositing supervisor: Hybride
Olivier Beaulieu	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Caroline Bélisle	....	administration: Hybride
Barb Benoit	....	digital compositor
Dennis Berardi	....	visual effects supervisor
Louise Bertrand	....	bidding producer: Hybride
Pierre Blain	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Raphaele Blanchard	....	tracking artist: Hybride
Michael Boggs	....	scanning manager
Cédric Bonnaffoux	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Mathew Borrett	....	matte painter
Kyle Boylen	....	digital compositor
Mike Bozulich	....	lead compositor: cafefx
Branden Bratuhin	....	visual effects editor: Mr. X Inc
Jeff Briant	....	visual effects production assistant: Mr X Inc.
Caroline Brien	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Wayne Brinton	....	digital compositor
Ayo Burgess	....	lighting artist
Zac Campbell	....	digital compositor
Jeff Capogreco	....	digital effects artist
Alessandra Carlino	....	visual effects editor
Kris Carson	....	digital compositor: Mr X
Christina Castellan	....	visual effects production assistant: Cafe FX
Andy Chan	....	visual effects compositor: Mr. X Inc.
Erik Charlebois	....	visual effects artist: Mr. X
Richard Chiu	....	digital compositor
Ovidiu Cinazan	....	digital compositor
Mélanie Cotton	....	technical support: Hybride
Joanie Croteau	....	production assistant: Hybride
Matt Daly	....	visual effects coordinator: Mr. X Inc.
Thierry Delattre	....	visual effects supervisors: Hybride
Luc Desmarais	....	technical support: Hybride
Anouk Deveault-Moreau	....	visual effects coordinators: Hybride
Jeremy Dineen	....	visual effects animator: Mr. X Inc
Laura Dittmann	....	visual effects production assistant
Anand Dorairaj	....	digital compositor
Amélie Dubois	....	digital compositor
Danny Duchesneau	....	digital compositor
Mike Duffy	....	flame artist: Mr X Inc.
Lafleche Dumais	....	computer graphics supervisors: Hybride
Mathieu Dupuis	....	lead digital compositor: Hybride
Peter Dydo	....	animator
Saeed Faridzadeh	....	digital compositor: Mr. X
Mike Fischer	....	digital artist
David Fix	....	senior systems administrator: Mr. X Inc
Jean-Pierre Flayeux	....	compositing supervisor: Hybride
Patrick Fogarty	....	post production coordinator
Xavier Fourmond	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Daniel Gaudreau	....	digital compositor
Yanick Gaudreau	....	textures & lighting: Hybride
Stephan Gervais	....	technical support: Hybride
Tommy Gervais	....	visual effects production assistant
Parth Ghatge	....	visual effects artist
Mohamed Ghouse	....	digital compositor
Kevin Gillen	....	visual effects artist
Matt Glover	....	visual effects production assistant
Jeff Goldman	....	visual effects supervisor: CafeFX
Jason Gougeon	....	digital artist: Mr. X Inc.
Robin Scott Graham	....	digital compositor: CafeFX
Robert Greb	....	digital compositor
Veronique Guay	....	production assistant: Hybride
Omar Gudjonsson	....	digital compositor
Myléne Guérin	....	visual effects coordinators: Hybride
Roopesh Gujar	....	visual effects production manager: Anibrain
Annu Gulati	....	digital artist: Mr. X. Inc.
Leann Harvey	....	post/visual effects coordinator: Mr X Inc.
Pierre-Simon Henri	....	effects animator: Hybride
Nadine Homier	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Noel Hooper	....	digital compositor
Jean-Francois Houde	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Timo Huber	....	digital compositor
Brandon Kachel	....	matte painter: Cafe FX
Sushil Kalyanshetti	....	digital compositor
Megumi Kanazawa	....	digital compositor
Dushyant Kashyap	....	digital effects artist
Joseph Kasparian	....	lead textures & lighting: Hybride
Val Kharitonashvili	....	effects technical director
Alain Lacroix	....	lead layout artist: Hybride
Eric Lacroix	....	digital artist
Isabelle Langlois	....	digital effects producer: Mr. X Inc.
Colin Laski	....	digital effects supervisor
Daniel Leduc	....	visual effects supervisor: Hybride
Francois Leduc	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Mai-Ling Lee	....	digital artist
Shun Sing Edward Lee	....	digital lighting and compositing artist
Winston Lee	....	inferno artist
Danny Levesque	....	effects animator: Hybride
Anouk L'Heureux	....	visual effects coordinators: Hybride
Jackson Li	....	digital artist
Seth Lippman	....	CG supervisor: CafeFX
Martine Losier	....	visual effects coordinators: Hybride
Matt Magnolia	....	visual effects coordinator: Dark Castle Pictures
Jocelyn Maher	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Stephane Mailet	....	technical support: Hybride
Richard Martin	....	visual effects supervisor: Hybride
Haydn Masuda	....	digital artist
Claire McLachlan	....	digital compositor: Mr. X Inc.
Sarah McMurdo	....	visual effects producer: Mr. X Inc.
Ramesh G. Meena	....	digital effects artist
Bhavik Mehta	....	digital compositor
Francois Metivier	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Jaideep Mohan	....	digital compositor
Benoit Morin	....	tracking artist: Hybride
Christian Morin	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Michel Murdock	....	visual effects financial controller: Hybride
Jesh Murthy	....	sequence lead: Anibrain
Nicolas-Alexandre Noel	....	computer graphics supervisors: Hybride
Jessica Nolet	....	digital artist
Pete O'Connell	....	visual effects artist
Sean O'Connor	....	production assistant: Hybride
Desi Ortiz	....	visual effects managing editor: CafeFX
Olivier Painchaud	....	technical support: Hybride
Hojin Park	....	digital compositor
Steve Pelchat	....	layout artist: Hybride
Rob Phillips	....	visual effects production assistant
Sebastien Proulx	....	compositor
Kevin Quatman	....	lead compositor
Matt Ralph	....	digital artist
Pierre Raymond	....	visual effects executive producer: Hybride
Dominic Remane	....	lighting lead
Dominic Remane	....	sequence lead: Mr. X Inc
Sébastien Rioux	....	digital compositor: Hybride
D'Ippolito Roberto	....	compositor
Paul Saint-Hilaire	....	digital compositor: Nuke
Mohit Salunke	....	compositor
Katy Savoie	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Matt Schofield	....	matte painter
Carolyn Shelby	....	digital compositor
Safia Siad	....	visual effects coordinator
Ben Simons	....	senior technical supervisor
Joao Sita	....	digital compositor: hybride
Brian Smallwood	....	compositor
Eddie Soria	....	senior roto/paint artist
Guillaume St-Aubin-Seers	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Jubinville Steve	....	senior digital modeler: Hybride
Sylvie Talbot	....	communications: Hybride
Brendan Taylor	....	associate visual effects supervisor: MR. X Inc.
Christa Tazzeo	....	additional visual effects
Philippe Theroux	....	computer graphics supervisors: Hybride
Gaetan Thiffault	....	lead effects animator: Hybride
David Thompson	....	digital compositor
Peter Toufidis	....	matte painter: Hybride
Anne Tremblay	....	administration: Hybride
Marco Tremblay	....	lead modeler: Hybride
Véronique Tremblay	....	production assistant: Hybride
Thomas Turnbull	....	visual effects supervisor: Rocket Science VFX
Raphael Valle	....	digital compositor: Hybride
David Van Woert	....	digital trailer effects producer
Armando Velazquez	....	digital compositor
Stephen Wagner	....	visual effects artist
Nick Waken	....	digital effects artist: Cafe FX
John L. Weckworth	....	digital compositor
Clement Yip	....	animator
Hubert Zapalowicz	....	tracking artist: Hybride
Wojciech Zielinski	....	CG supervisor: Mr. X Inc.
Travis Baumann	....	visual effects artist (uncredited)
Ara Khanikian	....	digital compositor: Hybride (uncredited)

Stunts
Marie France Denoncourt	....	stunt double
Colin Follenweider	....	stunt double
Tig Fong	....	stunt rigger
Jere Gillis	....	stunt double
Nathalie Girard	....	stunt double: Kate Beckinsale
Stéphane Julien	....	stunt performer
Patrick Kerton	....	stunt double
Bill Leaman	....	stunt double
Karine Lemieux	....	stunt double: Kate Beckinsale
Steve Lucescu	....	stunt coordinator
Christopher McGuire	....	stunt double
Sarah Murphy-Dyson	....	stunt double: Kate Beckinsale
Hugh Aodh O'Brien	....	utility stunts
Edward A. Queffelec	....	stunt double
Edward A. Queffelec	....	stunt rigger
Andrei Runtso	....	stunts
Patrick Sabongui	....	stunts
Dan Skene	....	stunt performer

Camera and Electrical Department
Victor Abbene	....	gaffer: additional photography
Eric Aubin	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Jean-Philippe Belliard	....	electrician: re-shoots
Hans Bjerno	....	aerial director of photography
Stephane Boisvert	....	second generator operator
Roch Boucher	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Jeremy Braben	....	aerial director of photography
Giselle Brewton	....	second assistant camera: re-shoots
Stéphane Byl	....	lighting technician
John Clarke	....	first electrician
Jim Filippone	....	pilot: camera helicopter
Gilles Fortier	....	rigging gaffer
Eames Gagnon	....	gaffer: second unit
Eric Godbout	....	first assistant camera
Matthew J. Hall	....	film loader: re-shoots
Stephanie Girard Hamelin	....	video assist operator
Robert Lapierre Jr.	....	best boy grip
Eric Lefèbvre	....	rigging electric
Nicolas Marion	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Christopher TJ McGuire	....	MK-V AR operator
W. James Meagher	....	lighting technician
Tim Merkel	....	camera operator
Melanie Morin	....	rigging grip coordinator
Reil Munro	....	grip: Winnipeg
Colin Noel	....	best boy rigging grip
François Perrier	....	Steadicam operator
Nicolas Phillips	....	lighting technician
Rafy	....	still photographer
Robert Stecko	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Oliver Ward	....	camera technician: Wescam camera
Dane Bjerno	....	aerial camera technician (uncredited)

Animation Department
Saxena Abhishek	....	animator
Abhishek Saxena	....	animator

Casting Department
Freya Krasnow	....	casting assistant
Larissa Mair	....	casting associate
Kari Rieger	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Bethany Bernhard	....	costumer
Jennifer Miller	....	costumer
Heather Moore	....	assistant costume designer
Heather Neale	....	costume assistant: Winnipeg

Editorial Department
Stuart Baird	....	supervising editor
Glenn Richard Côté	....	assistant editor
Jim Eberle	....	digital intermediate on-line editor
Christopher Hills-Wright	....	first assistant editor: Montreal
Nicolae Ilies	....	dailies colorist
Harold Parker	....	first assistant editor
Tom Reagan	....	second assistant editor
Erik Rogers	....	senior digital intermediate producer
Peter G. Smith	....	assistant editor
Stefan Sonnenfeld	....	colorist
Aidan Stanford	....	color timer
Jason Wasserman	....	first assistant editor: Avid
Rob Doolittle	....	senior on-line editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Michael J Dobbins	....	technical score assistant
Peter Fuchs	....	scoring mixer
Kevin Kaska	....	orchestrator
Ian Neil	....	music supervisor
Gerry O'Riordan	....	music recording engineer
Thomas Parisch	....	orchestrator
Derek Somaru	....	music editor
Del Spiva	....	music editor
Frederik Wiedmann	....	composer: additional music
Allan Wilson	....	conductor
Hyesu Yang	....	orchestrator
Laurent Ziliani	....	music preparation

Transportation Department
John Bekavac	....	driver: Winnipeg
John Bober	....	transportation captain
Royale Edward	....	driver: cast
Daniel Matthews	....	transport coordinator
Dave Perich	....	driver: Kate Beckinsale, Manitoba
Spiro Tsovras	....	transportation captain
Corey Walker	....	driver: Winnipeg

Other crew
Lindsay Affleck	....	office production assistant
Stephen Bender	....	production coordinator
Dave Brown	....	firearms safety coordinator: Winnipeg
Peter L. Byrne	....	assistant: David Gambino
Nuno Capitao de Salles	....	cast personal trainer
Jean-Philippe Collin	....	lead stand-in
Bill Coughran	....	technical advisor
Simone De Camargo	....	production accountant
Ken Dhaliwal	....	production legal
Matthew Eberle	....	set production assistant: reshoots
Melissa Girotti	....	production coordinator: Winnipeg )
Nadia Guglieri	....	second script supervisor
Michael J. Harker	....	completion bond representative
Nicholas Hosking	....	adr voice group
Paul Hurst	....	assistant production coordinator: Winnipeg
Sarah Jene	....	assistant to executive producer
Petra Jorgensen	....	script supervisor: Los Angeles shoot
Lara Khajetoorians	....	assistant: Susan Downey
Nathalie Lagacé	....	art accountant
Cara Leibovitz	....	unit publicist
Ronald J. Levin	....	legal representative
Paul McCloskey	....	assistant: Steve Richards
Robin Mounsey	....	supervising location manager
Paolo Quintans	....	set production assistant
Lara Ravdjee	....	assistant: Joel Silver
Ryan Robertson	....	main title producer
Andy Ross	....	executive album producer
Lise Servant	....	payroll accountant
Karla Trujillo Villon	....	office production assistant
Ryan Wuckert	....	key locations assistant
Diandra Yoselevitz	....	travel coordinator

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures (presentation)
• Dark Castle Entertainment (in association with)
• Studio Canal (financed in association with) (as Studiocanal)
• Don Carmody Productions (uncredited)
• McMurdo (Canada) Productions (uncredited)

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (2009) (USA) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (2009) (Malaysia) (theatrical)
• Continental Film (2009) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
• Forum Cinemas (2009) (Estonia) (theatrical)
• Garsu Pasaulio Irasai (2009) (Lithuania) (theatrical)
• InterCom (2009) (Hungary) (theatrical)
• InterCom (2009) (Romania) (theatrical)
• Karo Premiere (2009) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Optimum Releasing (2009) (UK) (theatrical)
• Studio Canal (2009) (France) (theatrical)
• Tuck (2009) (Serbia) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2009) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Village Roadshow Greece S.A. (2009) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Mexico) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2009) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Optimum Home Entertainment (2010) (UK) (DVD)
• Optimum Home Entertainment (2010) (UK) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Turner Network Television (TNT) (2012) (USA) (TV)

Special Effects

• Anibrain
• Hybride Technologies (visual effects)
• Intrigue
• Invisible Pictures (additional visual effects)
• Mr. X (visual effects)
• Rocket Science VFX (additional visual effects)
• XYZ-RGB (cyber scanning)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies
• Company 3  digital intermediate
• Cutting Edge Group  music services
• Danetracks  sound design and editorial
• Helicopter Film Services  aerial filming and helicopters
• Identity Studios  digital effects
• Pictorvision  aerial camera system
• Pivotal Post  Avid editing equipment
• Prologue Films  titles
• Taiga Air Services  aerial filming and helicopters
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack

Also Known As:

Whiteout: Enfer blanc (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA | Canada | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #44921) | Australia:MA | Ireland:15A | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:15 | Singapore:PG (edited version) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Japan:PG12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Mexico:B15

Filming Locations:

Boucherville, Québec, Canada

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Kate Beckinsale was producer Joel Silver's first choice for the role of Carrie Stetko.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Kate Beckinsale's character never wears a face mask. If the winds were reaching 100 mph and the temperature was -65, her face would be frostbitten in a matter of 1 or 2 minutes.

Quotes:

Dr. John Fury: I never meant for anyone to get hurt, but Haden got greedy.

Movie Connections:

References Top Gun (1986)

If only the twist were also concealed by the weather...

When Kate Beckinsale's character says she wants out of Antarctica, you could almost hear the actor speaking the same of "Whiteout." No wonder, as Dominic Sena's south pole-set whodunnit based on a graphic novel by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Steve Lieber is of the dull sort, where tension is conveniently sapped by proceedings so insipid and a narrative arc so obvious one could easily compute for the trajectory.

Beckinsale plays Carrie Stetko, a US marshal haunted by a partner who double-crossed her years earlier, and finally ready to get back to civilization after holing herself up in a scientific research facility in Antarctica. Yet just as she's about to leave for warmer weather, dead bodies pile up and she's forced to look into the case through the Antarctic winter, getting stranded for another half-year with a shady UN investigator (Gabriel Macht), her pilot Delfy (Columbus Short), and a doctor (Tom Skerritt).

Intermittently kept alive by a couple of frantic action sequences amid the titular condition, whatever little success those moments achieve is ultimately diluted by Sena's standard direction, the pedestrian script, and a twist as clear as a spring sky. The remote setting and Beckinsale's tough-as-nails presence keep things mildly exotic, but the notably hackneyed affairs assure that this adaptation never deviates far from its moribund state.