Hey, I'm Alive

As Ralph's granddaughter, I know the movie has details that correctly depict their survival experience. The sardine cans were recovered from the crash site a few years ago. The gash in the trees and plane wreckage allowed family members to find the site and start the reconstruction project on the plane. Ralph was known as a man of few words; Asner's flaw is not properly portraying the strength in Ralph's proactive and resourceful role in keeping the two alive. It is based upon Helen's book about her survival experience in the Yukon Territory of Alaska. Unfortunately, the movie contains actors who are a bit annoying, but reflective of the actions performed by the Helen and Ralph. The cinematography was not very interesting, but it shows what happened that winter. I feel that the movie should be remade to give the experience more credibility to the movie watcher. People who have seen this movie in theater know that it is much more interesting to be able to see the vast winter scene on a large color screen. I am surprised that other people have seen this film.

I was a sensitive little kid when these trashy TV movies came out. They were manipulative towards a far more naive society. I even remember every other week on Marcus Welby the plot was some happy beautiful girl preparing for her wedding then BOOM! She finds a dreaded mole and it is all over.

A lot of people died from moles on 1970s TV.

Anyway, back to this film. Lou Grant and Gloria Stivic stranded together might be interesting but not these two characters. They are unbearably annoying.

With Struthers crying out in hunger on this film, one can only remember the SNL skits spoofing her weight gain in her feed the children commercials.

This film is not to be taken seriously. Which is a good thing.

I was disappointed reading some of these comments.

I work at a museum that has a display about the event that this movie is about. To Flores' granddaughter, they crashed in the Yukon Territory, in CANADA. The Yukon is not in Alaska, rather beside it in Canada.

While I have yet to see the film I know plenty about the event and trust that the events were portrayed fairly accurately from the book written by Klaben. Helen Klaben has returned to the Yukon to hike into the site a couple of times and may be returning again this year.

It is a pretty incredible story and their incredible survival should not be downplayed by the people who doubt the possibility or validity.

This supposedly true story of two people stranded in the Yukon for almost 50 days without food after the first week was an ok tv drama. The acting was decent in parts, but very phony in others. There was also a strong religious overtone. The characters didn't really seem all that intelligent and it didn't really show how they survived that long which does seem impossible. The ending was especially strange. Overall pretty watchable, but that's about it.

A pretty much forgotten made for TV film about a college educated girl and a graduate from the school of hard knocks Canadian who are stranded in the Yukon when their small plane goes down. Sally Struthers and Ed Asner made for a strange pairing to say the least. The picture had some annoying religious overtones and never touched enough on how they actually survived.