Anything to Survive

Matt LeBlanc was so fantastic and memorable in this great, living-it-as-you're-watching-it, movie. As I understand it, this movie is what basically launched his career, and I can see why.

Based on a true story, this television drama was filmed along Canada's west coast, in winter. The cast and crew worked in icy waters and freezing rain. It was a miserable "shoot" but so was the horror of the real people involved. You will notice a very young and green Matt Leblanc in a roll years before "Friends". Robert Conrad was very strong and real...a true professional.

Richard Long

We stayed up late to watch this film, and never have I laughed so much! The script was poor and, appreciating it was based on a true story, the attempts of the family to escape, for me simply descended into hilarity, where it should have been a more serious film. For example, the ironically funny scene where they stupidly break the oars to use as crutches, not thinking that where there are oars, there is surely a boat! Watch only for amusement....

This is a fantastic true story drama, that introduced the world to hollywood hero, Matt LeBlanc. A family are left stranded on an unknown island, all they have is each other, and human spirt. Though out the mind numbing twists in this classic adventure the close family have to make some life or death decisions that keep you on the edge of your seat, thoughout. Although Matt LeBlanc has only gone onto world stardom in such classics as "The red shoe diaries 3 and 7" and "Reform School Girl" i don't think we should forget the performance of Emily Perkins (Krista) who really made the film what it is. A fantastic emotional rollacoster of a film that you leave you breathless. Congradulations to Zale Dalen for making the greatest TVM EVER.

A Canadian-American disaster survival TV film drama; A story about a carpenter and his teenage children who spend weeks ashore freezing and starving, shipwrecked off Alaska. The film is based on the ordeal of an author and his three teenaged children in the winter of 1979. The film's theme about the power of positivity matches what the coastguards believed helped them. It creates sufficient tension and has a good enough story and the performances of the cast are good, portraying the family members and the mistakes they believed they were making to do the right thing.