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Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine, Cynthia Mace

It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researcher...( read more  read more... )s and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace). It is Big John to whom Nielsen confides that she has discovered a lump in her breast, which, with the e-mailed assistance of her fellow physicians back in the States, she diagnoses as a cancerous growth. After a self-administered biopsy, Nielsen and her new friends construct a crude chemotherapy unit to treat her ever-growing cancer. Supplies are periodically air-dropped by the Air Force and both Big John and Claire are given a crash course in the treatment of Nielsen's affliction; but will she be able to survive her ordeal until the rescue party arrives? Inspired by a true story, as written by Nielsen herself in a best-selling autobiography, Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole was filmed on location near Ontario's frozen Lake Simone.

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Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode

Release Date: May 20, 2003

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  • xxxcli213xxx
    December 15, 2008
    xxxcli213xxx
    no thanks not my thing
  • mutschkopf
    November 14, 2008
    mutschkopf
    Great movie!! Susan Sarandon's gorgeous!!!
  • alisonblooming
    November 6, 2008
    alisonblooming
    This film was brilliant. Susan Sarandon is so talented, she was fantastic in this film and as usual I was near to tears it was really moving.

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