SYNOPSIS
Inspired by a true story and the hit Japanese film NANKYOKU MONOGATARI, Frank Marshall’s (ALIVE, CONGO) EIGHT BELOW captures a rugged world of ice, snow, and threatening weather that few will ever experience in person. As a guide for a National Science Foundation Research Base in Antarctica, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is perfectly content to spend his time exploring the wilderness with his sled dogs and his best buddy, cartographer Charlie Cooper (Jason Biggs). When UCLA geologist Davis McLaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives at the camp with plans for a risky expedition: treacherous ice fields make his target destination accessible only by dog sled the boys see the chance of the adventure of a lifetime. Soon Shepard, McLaren and the sled dogs Maya, Max, Old Jack, Buck, Shorty, Dewey, Shadow, and Truman are on their way in search of McLaren’s prize: a meteorite from Mercury… but the weather has other ideas for them.