The film begins with a video documentary by Dr. David Kruipen (Val Kilmer), a research scientist in the Canadian Arctic. This is followed by a flashback to when David, his assistant Jane (Anne Marie DeLuise) and two other researchers tranquilize a polar bear, then discover the frozen remains of a wooly mammoth.

• The Thaw
• Steph Song
• Mark A Lewis
• Val Kilmer
• Martha MacIsaac
• Kyle Schmid
• Aaron Ashmore