[3][4] A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate.

As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.

The New York Times gave a negative review for Survive!, calling it "an irksomely dubbed film of rudimentary exposition with a sometimes tinny musical accompaniment".

Maybe that's because we realize that underlying this rather dumb, uninspired, even crude film is a true story of such compelling power that we're forced to think and respond.

"[6] Over the Labor Day weekend 1976, the film opened in Chicago and grossed $1,060,000 from 63 theaters which propelled it to number one at the US box office.