Synopsis

Jon Voight and Eric Roberts earned Oscar nods for their portrayals of Manny and Buck, two escapees of an Alaska maximum-security prison who hop aboard a locomotive. When a heart attack fells the engineer, the train careens across the frozen tundra. The fugitives, along with the engineer's assistant (Rebecca De Mornay), are trapped aboard and must reach the emergency fuel cutoff switch in the lead engine -- with the prison warden in hot pursuit.