127 Hours (2010)

Based On the Life of: Aron Ralston

Starring: James Franco

Movie Budget: $18 million

Star Salary: $2 million

127 Hours is an intense pic about Aron Ralston. Ralston, played by James Franco, is a canyon explorer who got trapped by a boulder after an accident in Bluejohn Canyon, a slot canyon in southeastern Utah. Filmed like a video diary, the tale is nothing if not riveting.

You watch as Ralston tries, in vain, to free himself before it’s too late. The movie was based on Ralston’s autobiography, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, in which he explored the 127-hours he spent trapped in the canyon. At the end of his long, harrowing entrapment, Ralston was faced with a brutal choice in order to keep himself alive.