Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- James Hoffman
- (as James LeGros)
- Doctor Pedersen
- (as Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaArtist Brahm Revel illustrated a comic book adaptation of this film.
- GoofsWhen they try and leave the scene where they discover the grader 'n tanker truck, they discover that their snowmobile won't start because it has 'lost all its oil'. That particular sled had a two stroke engine which uses mixed fuel (no crank case oil as in all four stroke engines) so this would've been impossible.
- Quotes
James Hoffman: [from his journal] Empathy with the land. This we learn in childhood. The land has changed. The biosphere turned; has become unfamiliar and erratic. I would say eventual, but nature is indifferent to us. We fight for our survival, not nature's. There's a fierceness in the world that we never felt before. Something is being unleashed in the softening permafrost. Why do we despise the world that gave us life? Why wouldn't the world survive us, like any organism survives a virus. The world that we grew up in is changed forever. There is no way home. Is there something beyond science that is happening out here? What if the very thing we were here to pull out of the ground were to rise willingly - confront us. What would that look like? What if this is the last winter, before the collapse? And hope dies.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Making of 'the Last Winter' (2007)
- SoundtracksMy Baby Just Cares For Me
Written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn
Performed by Nina Simone
Published by Donaldson Publishing Co. / Gilbert Keyes Music Co. /
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Bethlehem Music Company, Inc. & Steven Ames Brown
Another reviewer pegged it nicely as a mix of "The Shining" with a little bit of 'The Thing" and you have a flavor of what this movie is like.
What's nice is that there isn't the usual pot boiler about some secret military base, or some evil corporate shenanigans. The characters are the normal sorts of people who actually would work in this kind of remote, exploratory/drilling outpost. And I especially like the music/camera work they did in one segment. . .visually lyrical.
And the 'Whatever it is"? I still don't have the darnedest idea!! That's what makes this movie a nice horror treat. Yes, there's a global warming message in there-- but this isn't an environmentalist groupie movie trying to hit you over the head. Global warming is just one of the ingredients.
But overall. . .spooky.
- Rabh17
- Aug 2, 2008
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,190
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,090
- Sep 23, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $97,522
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1