WHITEOUT

Year: 2009
USA: Warner Bros Pictures
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt, Alex O'Loughlin, Patrick Sabongui, Shawn Doyle, Bashar Rahal, Nicolas Wright, Sean Tucker, Paula Jean Hixson, Alexander Bisping, Julian Cain, Nick Vallarin
Director: Dominic Sena
Countries: Canada / USA
USA & UK: 101 mins
USA Rated: R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, bloody violence and injury
USA Release Date: 11 September 2009
UK Release Date: 9 September 2009 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

WHITEOUT! Is a thriller set in deepest, darkest and coldest Antarctica and stars Kate Beckinsale (UNDERWORLD) and Gabriel Macht (THE SPIRIT).

Antarctica. At 120 degrees below zero, this is the most isolated place on earth. Home to one of the deadliest forces in the world the whiteout. The ice has provided U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Beckinsale) with a perfect place to forget her troubled past and feel at peace, but in just three days she will be getting out. Each winter the station powers-down and the sun sets for several months. Soon nothing will be visible or traceable.

However, Stetko is quickly plunged into a shocking mystery when there is an unexpetcted murder in her jurisdiction - the first homicide in Antartica. When U.N. Special Agent Robert Pryce (Macht), is sent to monitor her investigation, the case takes a deadly twist and a 60 year-old secret is unearthed.

Suddenly Stetko herself becomes a target. Pryce could prove to be a powerful ally for her but only if solving the murder is what he's really after. With only days before the last plane out, Stetko must race to unravel the mystery or risk being stranded on the ice as darkness and the killer closes in.

Based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name WHITEOUT is a chilling thriller from legendary producer Joel Silver that will have you on the edge of your seat and chilled to the bone.