The Grey(2012)

Open Road Films

R
Rated R for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language
1h 57m

Release Date: Jan 27, 2012 | Wide

80%
61%
B-
6.7

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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Releases

Original Release | Jan 27, 2012

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$19,665,101
Total US & Canada:
$51,580,236
Total International
$28,201,459
Total Worldwide:
$79,781,695

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Director & Top Cast

Joe Carnahan
Director

Liam Neeson
Ottway

Dermot Mulroney
Talget

Frank Grillo
Diaz

Dallas Roberts
Henrick

Joe Anderson
Flannery

Nonso Anozie

Burke

James Badge Dale

Lewenden

Ben Hernandez Bray

Hernandez

Anne Openshaw

Actor

Peter Girges

Company Clerk

Jonathan Bitonti

Ottway (5 years old)

James Bitonti

Ottway's Father

Ella Kosor

Talget's Little Girl

Jacob Blair

Cimoski

Lani Gelera

Flight Attendant

Larissa Stadnichuk

Flight Attendant

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Datasat,Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom

Language: English,Spanish

Summaries

Plot Summary

John Ottway (Liam Neeson) works in Alaska, killing wolves that threaten an oil drilling team. It is a lonely and brutal life in harsh climatic conditions. Oil drilling attracts all kinds of misfits including ex-cons, drifters, fugitives and generally unfit for mankind. On his last day on the job, Ottway writes his wife, Ana (Anne Openshaw), a letter explaining his plans to commit suicide. Ottway feels purposeless and says that he is not doing any real good in the world. However, he doesn't follow through after hearing the howl of a wolf from the mountains.The next day, the plane carrying the team, including Ottway, crashes in a blizzard. The flight was half full, with about 15-20 passengers on board. Ottway tries to protect himself by lodging his body between 2 rows of seats and taking an oxygen mask. But at one point the fuselage of the plane breaks apart and Ottway was hanging partially outside the plane. Ottway sees a vision of his wife urging him not to feel afraid. Oattway awakens in the Alaskan wilderness, surrounded by miles of ice. He finds the plane wreck a few meters away and finds one of the team, Lewenden (James Badge Dale), mortally wounded. Ottway calms him, and Lewenden dies. Ottway finds some warm clothes for himself to protect from the biting cold and strong winds. There is no cell phone reception in the area. Ottway knows that there is no hope of being rescued from this wilderness. Taking charge, Ottway sets the survivors the task of building a fire. While doing this, he discovers a corpse, and is attacked by the gray wolf feeding on it. After saving Ottway, the group surmises that they are in the wolves' territory. A wolf pack territory extends up to 300 miles and they will protect their den ferociously. Wolves are man-eaters and hence Ottway asks the survivors to bury the dead, so that the wolves are not attracted by the stench. But soon enough, a wolf pack announces their presence to the survivors. They decide to take turns keeping watch for the predators.Later, Hernandez (Ben Bray) is killed by two wolves, and the group discovers his body in the morning. Ottway suggests they leave the crash site, but Diaz (Frank Grillo) questions his leadership. Ottway says that the crash site is exposed from all sides, and they need to move to a location where they can defend themselves better against the wolf attacks. While searching for the wallets of their deceased colleagues, intending to return them to their families, Diaz finds an emergency wristwatch containing a radio beacon. Ottway finds the suicide letter he had written to his wife. The group then leaves the site. While walking through the snow (the blizzard is still strong and as a result there is very low visibility even in open frozen grounds), Flannery (Joe Anderson) (who was already injured in the leg and falls behind from the rest of the group) falls and is killed by wolves. One of the group members sees the pack of wolves approaching, and the survivors run for the trees, lighting a fire in an attempt to ward off their attackers.The group sets about producing makeshift weaponry, and Diaz threatens Ottway with a knife, but is disarmed. They then kill and eat an omega wolf sent by the pack leader alpha to test them. Diaz, as a symbol of defiance, cuts the head off the cooking corpse and throws the head back at the pack, a move noted by the group as unwise, as wolves are the only creatures known to take revenge. While sitting around the fire, Diaz tells the group of his atheist beliefs, and Talget (Dermot Mulroney) states he believes in God. Ottway states he is also an atheist but wishes he could believe. He also recites a poem written by his father. A blizzard approaches, and the survivors set to maintaining the fire.In the morning, Burke (Nonso Anozie), who had been suffering from Hypoxia, is found dead. The remaining survivors leave the camp, and travel to the edge of a steep canyon. Hendrick secures a line across, and Diaz and Ottway traverse the canyon. Talget, however, is afraid of heights, and loses his glasses. His injured hand begins to bleed again, and his foot becomes caught on the rope, which breaks. He falls to the ground and is dragged away by wolves. Diaz attempts to save Talget but fails and injures his knee.The three remaining survivors continue and arrive at a river. There, Diaz explains that he would rather die there than return home to a meaningless life. He refuses offers of help and asks Ottway whether death would bring him comfort. They part company, and Ottway and Hendrick continue on together. Left alone, Diaz hears the wolves approaching. Further along the river, Ottway and Hendrick are set upon by wolves once again. In an attempt to flee, Hendrick falls into the river and is trapped beneath the surface. Ottway attempts to save him but is unsuccessful, and Hendrick drowns.Ottway, cold and wet, continues on alone. Exhausted, and at his wits end he stops walking and begins going through the collected wallets of the others seeing photos of them and their loved ones and carefully lays them in a small pile. A noise in the trees draws his attention to the wolves' that begin to appear from the tree line, and he realizes he has stumbled right into the wolves' den. Surrounded by the pack, he looks at his wife's photo in his wallet and fades into a memory of her; it is revealed that she is in a hospital bed dying of a terminal illness. As the alpha wolf approaches him, he places on the emergency wristwatch and arms himself with a knife and shards of glass from mini whiskey bottles taped to his hand. After reciting his father's poem once more, he lunges at the alpha wolf. The screen cuts to black and the ending is left ambiguous.In the post-credits scene, Ottway and the alpha wolf lie dying together following their battle.

Storyline

In Alaska, a team of oil workers board a flight home; however, they cross a storm and the airplane crashes. Only seven workers survive in the wilderness and John Ottway, who is a huntsman that kills wolves to protect the workers, assumes leadership of the group. Shortly after they learn that they are surrounded by a pack of wolves and Ottway advises that they should seek protection in the woods. But while they walk through the heavy snow, they are chased and attacked by the carnivorous mammals. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil This film is about a group of oil workers in Alaska who are all catching a flight home. While on the flight they go through some bad turbulence and then the plane crashes. There are some survivors including John Ottway ( Liam Neeson ) and they band together to try and survive the harsh cold conditions. But they soon find that there is a pack of Timber Wolves stalking them. They can either stay at the plane crash site and risk getting attacked or head towards some tree's in the distance to save themselves. But things don't work out the way they'd planned and slowly but surely the wolves try to pick them off one by one. — Michael Hallows Eve A crew of Alaskan oil-drillers find themselves in the wilderness after their plane crashes. As the crew tries to make a camp around the wreckage of the plane, they discover that they are being watched. The plane has crashed near a wolf pack, causing these creatures to aggressively attack the survivors. As the wolves follow them, John Ottway (one of these survivors, played by Liam Neeson) starts to see these people as actual people (as opposed to "assholes...men unfit for mankind"). Separated from society, we start to see these characters for who they are instead of what they were made to be by their circumstances. As Ottway sees his (now) companions picked off one by one, he questions himself, his companions, and the God he didn't use to believe in. — Troy Wullbrandt After suffering a violent plane crash, a group of oil drillers is stranded in the most remote wilderness of Alaska, far from any chance of being rescued. Exposed to the icy cold and extreme living conditions, the few survivors, led by Ottway, an experienced hunter, will endure the tireless persecution of a pack of huge wolves. — yusufpiskin 2 more All

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