Grey

Theatrical Release Date: 2012 01 27 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 025192148606

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Profanity]

Summary: Liam Neeson stars in producer/director Joe Carnahan's tense adventure thriller about a group of tough-as-nails oil rig workers who must fight for their lives in the Alaskan wilderness after their airplane crashes miles from civilization. With supplies running short and hungry wolves closing in, the shaken survivors face a fate worse than death if they don't act fast. Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, and Frank Grillo co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Adventure

Features: Deleted scenes
Feature commentary with co-writer/Director Joe Carnahan

Grey

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/15/2012

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 118 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The Grey
1. Chapter 1 [7:25]
2. Chapter 2 [4:26]
3. Chapter 3 [6:17]
4. Chapter 4 [5:48]
5. Chapter 5 [7:05]
6. Chapter 6 [4:42]
7. Chapter 7 [7:59]
8. Chapter 8 [3:38]
9. Chapter 9 [3:48]
10. Chapter 10 [8:07]
11. Chapter 11 [3:13]
12. Chapter 12 [1:47]
13. Chapter 13 [7:24]
14. Chapter 14 [3:22]
15. Chapter 15 [4:58]
16. Chapter 16 [4:22]
17. Chapter 17 [9:16]
18. Chapter 18 [5:27]
19. Chapter 19 [2:09]
20. Chapter 20 [8:11]

Jason Buchanan

Director Joe Carnahan delivers a masterful existential thriller draped in the warming cloak of a snowbound survival story with The Grey. For audiences willing to wrap their heads around its provocative yet bleak premise, the result is completely transfixing from the opening image of the monolithic Alaskan mountains to the profound final moment. By spending as much time subverting macho movie tropes and exploring the psychology of survival as they do ratcheting up the tension while the ranks of the desperate men slowly dwindle, Carnahan and co-screenwriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (who also penned the short story on which The Grey was based), offer a poignant meditation on the indifference of nature in a world where mankind often (falsely) believes that he is in control of his own fate. The story begins as solitary oil-rig employee and expert marksman Ottway (Liam Neeson) carefully takes aim at a wolf charging his co-workers, and pulls the trigger just as the beast prepares to pounce. Tormented by vivid memories of a long-lost love, he writes her a heartfelt letter before boarding an airplane for a flight that will never reach its destination. When the plane crashes deep in the most remote reaches of the Alaskan wilderness, Ottway and a handful of survivors -- including Diaz (Frank Grillo), Talget (Dermot Mulroney), Henrick (Dallas Roberts), Flannery (Joe Anderson), Burke (Nonso Anozie), and Hernandez (Ben Bray) -- must fight for their lives against not only the harsh arctic elements, but a pack of viciously territorial wolves. The eternal struggle between man and nature has been a prominent theme in popular literature ever since the invention of the printing press. Later, with the advent of film, storytellers began dutifully inventing ways to translate this conflict to the big screen by placing moviegoers in the position of those unfortunate souls who must face their own mortality without the comfort of loved ones or the convenience of modern medicine. Carnahan and Jeffers not only accomplish this feat with striking intensity in The Grey, but ambitiously delve even deeper by exploring the resulting issues of faith and morality that can arise under such dire circumstances; as thrilling as some of the scenes in The Grey are, Carnahan and Jeffers aren't simply interested in the mechanics and dynamics of survival, but in presenting the harsh realities of nature without pulling any punches. Meanwhile, by featuring a character who openly admits his fear early in the film, a pivotal scene in which three characters reveal their first names, and a quiet moment of reflection involving a stash of salvaged wallets, Carnahan and Jeffers cleverly undermine the gung-ho machismo in a way that favors humanity over clich?d storytelling. Yes, the wolves in The Grey are positively terrifying as they methodically stalk the survivors from just outside the light of dying fires, and when the massive alpha male reveals himself, even John Landis and Joe Dante's lycanthropes would run for the trees. But it's the ever-encroaching internal darkness that the storytellers are ultimately concerned with, and it's this aspect of the film that lingers with us long after the eerie memories of snarled teeth and gleaming eyes fade. It's easy to view nature as purely vicious, yet to recognize the savage beauty in the way that the cycle of life unfolds can strangely be somewhat comforting. Depending on your ability to see the story from this perspective, Carnahan's gripping yet grim thriller is either a masterpiece of reflective cinema, or a bleak, inexcusably nihilistic bid to transcend movie tropes by alienating the audience. But while watching The Grey, it pays to remember that wherever we may roam, we're all heading for the same destination. If you find comfort rather than consternation in that fact, odds are The Grey won't leave you cold. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Ridley Scott  Producer 
Tony Scott  Executive Producer 
Ross Fanger  Executive Producer 
Mickey Liddell  Producer 
Bill Johnson  Executive Producer 
Joe Carnahan  Director 
Joe Carnahan  Producer 
Joe Carnahan  Screenwriter 
Marc Butan  Executive Producer 
Jules Daly  Producer 
Marc Streitenfeld  Composer (Music Score) 
Jim Seibel  Executive Producer 
Ian Mackenzie Jeffers  Screenwriter 
Adi Shankar  Executive Producer 
Spencer Silna  Executive Producer 
Jennifer Hilton Monroe  Executive Producer 
Liam Neeson  Actor 
Frank Grillo  Actor 
Dermot Mulroney  Actor 
Dallas Roberts  Actor 
Joe Anderson  Actor 
Nonso Anozie  Actor 
Ben Bray  Actor 
James Badge Dale  Actor 
Anne Openshaw  Actor 
Peter Girges  Actor 
Jonathan James Bitonti  Actor 
James Bitonti  Actor 
Ella Kosor  Actor 
Jacob Blair  Actor 
Lani Gelera  Actor 
Larissa Stadnichuk  Actor 

Country: USA