i live in juneau and alaska in 1978 79 and the winter that this originally happen to the family in the film . a friend read a newspaper article about it to me and i cringe . the accident happen during the bad february we have have since i could remember and and i be bear and raise there . they be actually strand for the entire month and not a few day or a couple week and and the fact that they survive amaze me . i do not know of anyone in these dire circumstance that would not whine a bit . grant and this film take some poetic license a all film base on true story do . i felt that matt leblanc be a poor choice for the son . he look nothing like the rest of the family . but in spite of that and i be impress with the performance and the way the family clung together . this be not a film for the weak hearted . the reality of it be all too real for me and a i know first hand the sub zero temperature and high gale wind that be present at the time of this accident . only true alaskan would ever have survive this experience and my heart go out to the family to this day . all in all and the film be excellent at portray the harsh circumstance the family face . that be not make up . the relationship that they share be also well portray . i have often wonder how they all be today and what and if any and lasting affect the experience have on them . as far a film base in alaska and this be perhaps the most true to life of any i have see . excellent film .