The Grey (2011)

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

Director:

Joe Carnahan

Writers:

Joe Carnahan (screenplay), Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (screenplay),

Stars:

Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney

1 win & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Liam Neeson	...	Ottway
Frank Grillo	...	Diaz
Dermot Mulroney	...	Talget
Dallas Roberts	...	Hendrick
Joe Anderson	...	Flannery
Nonso Anozie	...	Burke
James Badge Dale	...	Lewenden
Ben Bray	...	Hernandez (as Ben Hernandez)
Anne Openshaw	...	Ottway's Wife
Peter Girges	...	Company Clerk
Jonathan Bitonti	...	Ottway (5 years old) (as Jonathan James Bitoni)
James Bitonti	...	Ottway's Father
Ella Kosor	...	Talget's Little Girl
Jacob Blair	...	Cimoski
Lani Gelera	...	Flight Attendant

Storyline

In Alaska, a team of oil workers board a flight home; however, they cross a storm and the airplane crashes. Only seven workers survive in the wilderness and John Ottway, who is a huntsman that kills wolves to protect the workers, assumes leadership of the group. Shortly after they learn that they are surrounded by a pack of wolves and Ottway advises that they should seek protection in the woods. But while they walk through the heavy snow, they are chased and attacked by the carnivorous mammals.

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Plot Keywords:

alaska | fear | punched in the face | isolation | foot chase | 

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Taglines:

Live or Die on This Day

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 January 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Un día para sobrevivir

Filming Locations:

Smithers, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$19,665,101 (USA) (27 January 2012)

Gross:

$51,533,608 (USA) (6 April 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Open Road Films (II), Inferno Distribution, LD Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bradley Cooper was originally cast, but was replaced with Liam Neeson.

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Goofs

During the movie one of the men is said to be getting hallucinations from hypoxia (lack of oxygen). However, hypoxia does not cause hallucinations.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Ottway: A job at the end of the world. A salaried killer for a big petroleum company. I don't know why I did half the things I've done, but I know this is where I belong, surrounded by my own. Ex-cons, fugitives, drifters, assholes. Men unfit for mankind.

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Crazy Credits

There's a scene after the end credits.

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Connections

References Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)

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Soundtracks

"Running A.D. Part 2"
Songwriter Mark Kevin Wilson
Produced by Vintage Masters Music
Performed by Lucian Blaque
Courtesy of Fervor Records Vintage Master, a division of Wild Whirled Music

User Reviews

Another Unsatisfying drama

Once again, another emotion-fishing desperation of a flick based on the vast perversion of reality involving our wolf friends to the north.

Very, very little about this fictional drama is true-to-life and even when wielding the power of distorted truth, the writers still couldn't find a way to keep this movie entertaining.

Boring, predictable, unsatisfying. I was expecting some form of plot twist or surprise ending to throw me off the track I had been riding safely on since the initial opening scene. I can't name one event in the entire movie that interrupted my boredom and caught me off guard.

Hollow story aside, even with a very mild grasp of true mother nature it is nevertheless quite obvious how much of an exploitation of wolves this fairy tale really is. One need only to have watched any of dozens of respectable documentaries in their lifetime (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWmOtXSAr1M) to obtain a grasp of how the species thinks and operates. Reality is simply nothing like the exploitation that The Grey has provided.

I was excited to watch this yet found the movie both disrespectful of truth as well as my intellect and wouldn't even recommend it as a cheap rental. Simply embarrassing and fruitless unless you're hellbent on watching for the sake of viewing another Liam Neeson performance.