127 Hours: Book vs. Movie
Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours (2010) adapts Aron Ralston’s 2004 memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Trapped alone in a Utah canyon with his arm pinned by a boulder, Ralston searches for a way to escape.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Aron Ralston
- Year
- 2004
- Pages
- 354Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 22 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Aron Ralston
Aron Ralston recounts the solo canyon trip that leaves his arm pinned beneath a boulder, with nobody aware of where to search for him. As he measures out his remaining water and tests ways to move the rock, he revisits earlier climbs and the decisions that made risk central to his life. His account follows both the practical problem of escaping and the changing thoughts of a man who expects to die alone.
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 1 hr 34 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clémence Poésy
- Genre
- biographical, docudrama, Drama, independent, survival
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A weekend of cycling and climbing ends when Aron Ralston falls into a narrow Utah canyon and a boulder traps his right arm. Unable to summon help, he turns his camera on himself, recording messages while his efforts to escape consume his water and strength. Memories of family, a former girlfriend, and the hikers he met that morning interrupt the long hours as he considers what he can still do to survive.
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