Eight Below
- Title: Eight Below
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The film starts off with a notice that the story is inspired by real events. Usually such a notice means we’re going to see something that someone’s friend of a friend heard about that happened and then is given the Hollywood treatment to make it even less believable. Although there is some of that present the makers of the film tried to limit it and stay true to the story, and the end result is surprisingly good.
Gerry (Paul Walker) is a guide at a remote Antarctic research base who works by taking people out on with his sled dogs on various scientific explorations. Gerry treats the dogs more like family than pets and his love for them is unwavering. At the end of the season a scientist (Bruce Greenwood) arrives to look for a meteorite and despite Gerry’s strong concerns and objections he takes him out (cue suspenseful music here).
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