Vertical Limit
By admin | July 1, 2009
A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world’s second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature’s uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie, and her summit team in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick, to ascend the chilling might of the world’s most feared peak to save her.
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Into Thin Air - Death On Everest
By admin | June 30, 2009
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s best selling book, “Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster”. This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.
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Everest
By admin | June 28, 2009
An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
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K2
By admin | June 26, 2009
Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world’s second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain
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Cliffhanger
By admin | June 24, 2009
While crossing a crevasse, 4000 feet above the ground, Gabe’s friend’s equipment fails to work and she slips out of his hand, falling to the ground. Almost a year later, Gabe (played by Sylvester Stallone) is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of stranded people. The only catch is that these stranded people are looking for three boxes filled with $100,000,000 and they need mountain ranger to lead them to them.
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Mystery, Alaska
By admin | June 13, 2009
Starring Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds, Mystery, Alaska is a hockey movie that will win hockey fans over. When Mystery, Alaska’s amateur hockey team accepts a challenge to play against the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside and pull together as their small town becomes the center of a nationally televised event.
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Les Boys
By admin | June 11, 2009
Les Boys is a 1997 Quebec-made comedy film directed by Louis Saia. It has spawned three sequels and is the most successful Quebec made film series of all time, and one of the most successful Canadian-made film series of all time. This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team.
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Surf’s Up
By admin | June 9, 2009
This animated surfing move follows a teenage penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he’s nothing but a surfing fool, to the “Big Z Memorial Surf Off” on Pen Gu Island. Surfer pengui Cody is determined to win the most important competition in the world of penguin surfing in honor of “Big Z,” a deceased surfing legend whom he has idolized since childhood. But the waves in Pen Gu are different than in Shiverpool, and the competition is totally intense.
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Ride The Wild Surf
By admin | June 7, 2009
Made in 1964 and starring Fabian, Barbara Eden and Tab Hunter, Ride the Wild Surf is the surfing movie that tells the tale of a group of friends go to Hawaii in order to practice surfing, their favorite sport. But this is not all they do there - they also find love.
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In God’s Hands
By admin | June 5, 2009
In God’s Hands, the surfing film be Zalman King, tells the story of big wave riders that go all over the globe searching to ride bigger and bigger waves. The story follows Shane Dorian and his obsession with surfing. It also follows how they train for surfing immense waves like those in this surfing movie.
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