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Alpha
Man and beast join forces to survive the elements in director Albert Hughes's adventure set 20,000 years ago during the Ice Age. Teenager Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is poised to cross the threshold to manhood and is torn between the competing desires of his parents: proud tribal chief Tau (Johannes Haukur Johannesson) and kind-hearted mother Pho (Natassia Malthe). To prove himself as a hunter, Keda joins the rest of the clan to bring down a herd of bison but the animals stampede and the boy is thrown off a cliff during the chaos. Tau discovers his boy's broken, lifeless body and mourns Keda's death before returning to the tribe. Soon after, Keda regains consciousness and begins the slow journey back home unaware that his parents believe him to be dead. En route, the boy counters a pack of voracious wolves and escapes from the predators by climbing a tree. He injures one of the animals but cannot bring himself to kill the wolf. Instead, Keda nurses the animal back to health and christens it Alpha. Boy and canine become inseparable and together they overcome numerous obstacles which stand in the way of Keda's reunion with Tau and Pho.
