Avalanche [Escape from Alaska] * (1999, Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R Lee Ermey, C Thomas Howell) – Classic Movie Review 9749

Director Steve Kroschel’s 1999 Avalanche is a feeble, cheap-looking action thriller, with Thomas Ian Griffith as a chopper pilot working with an environmentalist couple (C Thomas Howell, Caroleen Feeney) in Alaska, tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency, when an avalanche strikes.

Two years later, the wife joins forces with the pilot to try to stop a new avalanche, threatened by the workings of an oil company.

Also in the cast are R Lee Ermey, John Ashton, Geoffrey Lower, Hilary Shepard, Gary Kasper, Bill Bacon, John Jabaley and Brett Baker.

Fallen on hard times, the actors put some energy into it.

Avalanche is directed by Steve Kroschel, runs 100 minutes, is made by Ian Page Productions, Kroschel Films and PM Entertainment Group, is written by Steve Kroschel, shot by Richard Pepin and Steve Kroschel, produced by Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi, scored by Alex Wilkinson and designed by Helen Harwell.

After a US cinema release and a US TV premiere in 1999, it had a UK video premiere in December 1999, and its US video premiere on 30 April 2002 as Escape from Alaska.

It was shot in October 1998 at Palmer, Alaska, and Sheep Mountain, Alaska.

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