Eight Below is a 2006 adventure film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio, which was released on February 17, 2006, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, in the United States.
It aired on Universal HD on January 30, 2009, being Disney's first film to air on Universal HD.
In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis Mc...
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Eight Below is a 2006 adventure film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio, which was released on February 17, 2006, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, in the United States.
It aired on Universal HD on January 30, 2009, being Disney's first film to air on Universal HD.
In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives at the base and presses Shepard to take him to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so against his own intuition, which tells him that it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling in a crevasse, Shepard tells his boss and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.
Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne but are...
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