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Ice Bound is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Roger Spottiswoode released in USA on 20 may 2003 with Susan Sarandon
Ice Bound (2003)
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Add to a movie listIce Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole is a 2003 CBS-TV movie starring Susan Sarandon as Dr. Jerri Nielsen in this harrowing true story of the cancer-stricken physician stranded at a South Pole research station who, under dangerous circumstances, and with the help of co-workers, treats her own illness.
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Based on the New York Times best-selling book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, the movie tells the story of how, in 1999, 46-year-old physician Nielsen decides to leave Ohio and spend a year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, one of the most remote and perilous places on Earth. Conditions at the station will be far from manageable, with winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero. Joining a team of researchers, construction workers and support staff, Dr. Nielsen is solely responsible for the mental and physical health of all fellow inhabitants stranded at the station through the winter. During the long Antarctic winter, Dr. Nielsen discovers a lump in her breast and is forced to self-administer a biopsy. Communicating via e-mail with doctors in the United States, she learns that the cancer is aggressive and rapid-growing. In order for her to survive several months until conditions will allow planes to land and rescue her from the continent, the doctors concur that she will need to begin chemotherapy treatments immediately.Actors
Susan Sarandon
(Dr. Jerri Nielsen)
Aidan Devine
(John Penny)
Carl Marotte
(Jacques Albrecht)
Lorne Cardinal
(Barry Colombus)
Kenneth Welsh
(Docteur Ben Murdoch)
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