By Andreas Wiseman International Editor EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Brendan Walsh’s contained Arctic thriller Centigrade, which is based on true events.
Genesis Rodriguez (Big Hero 6) and Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) star in the story about a 2002 incident when a young American couple traveled to the arctic mountains of Norway.
After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice. It is soon revealed that the woman is eight months pregnant.
Amid escalating tension between them and dwindling supplies, the couple battles -30C temperatures, hallucinations and hypothermia in their struggle to survive.
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