

The site of the accident turns into a tourist attraction and Chuck's byline has value again, but as Leo starts to wither away, Chuck's conscious roils.

A Thai drama called The Cave came out in 2019, and the National Geographic documentary The Rescue premiered last year. Instead of immediately helping to rescue him, Chuck manipulates the situation so Leo can be stuck for as long as possible. Thirteen Lives isn’t the first film to spotlight the cave rescue. With Yara Ibrahim, Tia Alkerdi, Amani Ballour, Salim Namour. A man named Leo (Richard Benedict) is hunting for Native American artifacts when he is trapped in a cave.

Outside of the city, in a small town, he discovers a story that could put him on the map again. Cave movies: The Cave (2005), Sanctum (2011), The Descent (2005), In Darkness We Fall (2014), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), Within (2005), Cave (2016). Kirk Douglas plays Chuck Tatum, a reporter who, having flamed out of jobs in bigger cities, takes a job at an Albuquerque newspaper. What if the creepiness of the cave wasn't the cave itself, but what the cave represents? That's the case in Billy Wilder's 1951 masterpiece Ace in the Hole.
