127 Hours is the new film from Danny Boyle, the Academy Award winning director of 2008’s Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire. 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a falling boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated slot canyon in Utah. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clémence Poésy), family, and the two hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara) he met before his accident. Over the next five days Ralston battles the elements and his own demons to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, descend a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Told with a dynamic narrative structure, 127 Hours is a visceral, thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.

On a Friday night in April of 2003, 26 year-old Aron Ralston drove to Utah to spend the weekend hiking in the stunningly beautiful and remote Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

Six days later, he would emerge to recount the most remarkable story of outdoor survival — and an unforgettable tale of human strength when faced with adversity.

Many who had heard the story of how Ralston survived the harrowing 127 hours in the wild, his hand pinned by an immovable fallen boulder, with scant food and mere drops of water, escaping only by an act of incredible bravery, wondered:

What did he go through in this sudden, extreme moment of reckoning?

How did he possibly find the will to hang on in such a desperate situation?

Would I do what he did in order to live?

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