The Donner Party
The Donner Party

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Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Donner Party:

Crispin Glover
Clayne Crawford
Michele Santopietro
Mark Boone Junior
Christian Kane
Crispian Belfrage

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Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.

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User Review - 10/10 by Get RI caught this at Austin Film Festival in October. Great film, shot very well. Crispin Glover gives a great performance with a strong supporting cast as well.
User Review - 10/10 by J SCaught this at the Los Angeles premiere last week. What a beautiful film about a tragic subject. See it!
User Review - 8/10 by David BOMG! a true story of survival in the harshest of conditions and what lengths a human will go to too keep alive. morality and christian values only become words in the outback where the weather takes its toll. everything they once held true and dear becomes stripped of its worth till staying alive is only point left.
User Review - 8/10 by Brody MA gritty, well filmed, convincing and reasonably accurate account of the actual event. One of the few historical films I have seen that resists the urge to trade a realistic account for drama, romance, and "happy" endings.
User Review - 8/10 by Sophia FI thought the acting was superb, especially by Crispin Glover. The story moves well, starting at the point where they're trapped in the Sierra Mountains. The film captures the isolation, desperation and cold. You feel like you're there. It also accurately protrays the culture of the time. I like when a film feels authentic.
User Review - 8/10 by Jennifer BThe obvious approach for a film about THE DONNER PARTY, one of the most infamous stories of deadly misadventure in American history, would be horror. But in T.J. Martin's THE DONNER PARTY, the historic event gets a well deserved dramatic approach that makes it all the more unsettling. Like most dramatic retellings, the ultimate end is known, but the journey, quite literally in this case, is more important than the end result. Martin's screenplay is a thriller focusing on the psychological ordeal of starvation and extreme weather. Martin takes liberties creating dramatic tension between members of the party, but otherwise the story is painstakingly accurate. Film at the actual Donner Pass in only 12 days, the stark beauty of a seemingly tranquil winter forest is countered with the increasing desperation only those on the brink of survival can feel. Personal conflicts are barely kept in check, and facades slowly start to wear the longer the party goes without provisions. It seems everyone has the eyes of a villain, and is trying to figure out who might turn on the rest. It's an impressive feat considering most of the action is either walking, or sitting around a fire, requiring the actors to emote their desperation with gravitas. The cannibalism is not glorified; everyone conveys a mixture of disgust and desperation in the few scenes where flesh is eaten. While the entire cast does a respectable job, and Crispin Glover is refreshingly cast against type, the standout performance is by Mark Boone, Jr. Boone (BATMAN BEGINS, MEMENTO) is usually typecast as a thug. But in THE DONNER PARTY he is the moral compass of the story, and does it well. In a pivotal moment, with very few words and tight camera work, Boone steals the movie.
User Review - 6/10 by Jennie Hcrispin glover + cannibalism ... yummy...
User Review - 6/10 by Clayton FCrispin Glover stars in the story of the Donner Party, a group of men and women who left their homes in the mid-west to get to California where they could practice their religion freely. They get stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and are forced to survive one of the worst winters of the century. Crispin Glover is okay, he performs his usual stop-and-start, stuttering delivery. He looks like someone from this era and his face is quite gaunt. The other actors are pretty much average. The story is average. The cinematography is probably one of the better aspects of the film. The story itself has been changed to make it more dramatic. Why? What's more dramatic than people being stuck in the mountains and being forced to eat each other? It's never a good sign when stories like this which are so well known are juiced up.
User Review - 6/10 by Irene FDefinitely give the creep factor, though it gets you thinking. Pretty poorly acted, though.
User Review - 6/10 by Timothy NRule number one, if you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere, shoot that creepy bastard Crispin Glover first. In fact, if you're caught in an elevator with him for more than two floors, shoot him and run.

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