Freeview (UK) film of the day : tuesday 18th of June

127 Hours (2011) [C4 9.00pm & +1 89min.]

Drama based on a true story, directed by Danny Boyle and starring James Franco.

In 2003 hiker Aron Ralston embarked on a wilderness jaunt in a Utah national park, without informing anyone where he was going. But a freak accident saw him become quite literally stuck between a rock and a hard place - trapped by his forearm between a boulder and a cliff-face.
Over the next six days (the 127 hours of the title), with no sign of rescue and his water having run out, the brutal solution to his ghastly predicament became increasingly clear.

Danny Boyle re-creates this true story of survival using flashbacks, hallucinations and kinetic editing; he transforms a necessarily static situation into a collage in which we get to see a man pondering his imminent demise and discovering whether he has what it takes to save himself.

Warning: 127 Hours contains a song by Dido