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Escape from Alaska (1999) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1999 · 96 mins · English
- Directed by
- Steve Kroschel
- Starring
- R. Lee Ermey, John Ashton, C. Thomas Howell, Thomas Ian Griffith, Hilary Shepard, Gary Kasper
A helicopter pilot partners with a couple tagging arctic foxes for the EPA in the frozen North. An avalanche kills the husband and the pilot saves the wife. Two years later she opposes a corporation’s plan to extend an oil pipeline across the Juneau tundra, fearing another avalanche. She enlists the pilot, but their efforts fail.
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