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Free Solo

  • 20182018
  • PGPG
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
71K
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Alex Honnold in Free Solo (2018)
From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of MERU, comes FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the worlds most famous rock ... the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without a rope.
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Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.
IMDb RATING
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71K
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POPULARITY
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294
    • Jimmy Chin
    • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
  • Stars
    • Alex Honnold
    • Tommy Caldwell
    • Jimmy Chin
    • Jimmy Chin
    • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
  • Stars
    • Alex Honnold
    • Tommy Caldwell
    • Jimmy Chin
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    • 334User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Sanni McCandless
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    Dierdre Wolownick
    Dierdre Wolownick
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    Peter Croft
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    John Bachar
    John Bachar
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    Derek Hersey
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    Sean Leary
    Sean Leary
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    Dan Osman
    Dan Osman
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    Dean Potter
    Dean Potter
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      • Jimmy Chin
      • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
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    • Trivia
      Alex Honnold has done the triple crown of climbing in Yosemite. El Cap, Half Dome and the Mt. Watkins.
    • Quotes

      Alex Honnold: Anyone can be happy and cosy. Nothing good happens in the world by being happy and cosy.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Oscars (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Hyde & Pine
      Written by Aaron Mort, Avi Vinocur, Shannon Koehler, Spence Koehler
      Performed by The Stone Foxes
      Published by Embassy Music Corporation (BMI), Music Sales Corporation (ASCAP)
      Courtesy of Embassy Music Corporation

    User reviews334

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    10/10
    Hands so sweaty I needed chalk in the theater!
    Took my 9yo who occasionally climbs with me and she really dug it.
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    • rob-amazon
    • Oct 11, 2018

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      • December 13, 2018 (New Zealand)
      • United States
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      • Morocco
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      • Little Monster Films
      • Itinerant Films
      • Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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