If you’re coming to this the first thing in the morning, fair warning, it may be a bigger jolt to the system than your double decaf latte.

Filmmaker Danny Boyle, Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire, directs 127 Hours based on mountain climber Aron Ralston’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place, (Atria, 2004; original cover at left), his memoir of being trapped by a boulder in a canyon for five days. To save himself, he finally had to cut off his own arm.

Rising star James Franco (he’s Julia Robert’s younger lover in Eat Pray Love and was recently profiled in New York magazine),  plays Ralston.

The movie is scheduled for release on Nov. 5.

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Tie-in pbk:
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
Pocket, October 2010; Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages; $7.99
ISBN-13: 9781451617702

Tie-in Abridged Audio:
Read by: Aron Ralston
Simon & Schuster Audio, October 2010;  5 CD’s $14.99
ISBN-13: 9781442340015

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