127 Hours - NYT Critics' Pick

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James Franco as Aron Ralston in “127 Hours.”
The Tale of a Shocking Fall and a Gritty Resolve
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: November 4, 2010

In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow slot in Blue John Canyon in Utah, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. Mr. Ralston’s ordeal — described in many interviews after the fact and in his lively, unaffected memoir, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” — was a struggle for survival and a profound existential crisis. More