I just watched this movie, and have immediately placed the book "Miracle in the Andes" in my Amazon shopping cart. The is an incredible story of survival, a thought that cannot escape you as you watch the movie. However, the movie itself does a rather weak job of portrayal. Most of the acting is seriously flawed and just not realistic. Scenes are frequently over-dramatized -- for example, lots of overdone slow motion waving to rescue helicopters...with Ethan Hawke hanging out the door with smiles and waves to boot...he seems o.k. for a guy who just spent two months eating people and climbing out of the mountains with no gear. The story carries the movie, and if it were fiction, it would get just one star. This story truly deserved a better movie portrayal. If someone just doesn't read books, they'd likely thoroughly enjoy the movie. I'm am quite confident that the book in my cart will be much, much better!