This is a movie about the relationship between several GI's, all that's left from a much larger unit of Rangers. The have already been captured, fight to get away, and finally return to their unit, losing friends in the process. After coming back to an aid station and makeshift headquarters they are advised of a German advance that if not stopped, will roll over the wounded and Nurses. Their mission is to blow up a petrol station and deny the Germans the fuel needed to continue the attack. Anyone looking for Saving Private Ryan has chosen the wrong movie. But if you want to watch a movie where unit relationships are explored, small unit combat is portrayed, and what it's like sometimes when the chips are down, this one isn't bad.

What started as a week-long adventure with friends quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival in The Stairs. in 1997, a young boy is out hunting with his grandfather (Schneider), when he stumbles upon a mysterious staircase deep in the forest. The subsequent disappearance leaves locals baffled as to the fate of the wayward pair. Twenty years later, a group of hikers set off on an ambitious trail, deep into the same stretch of wilderness. With each step away from civilization they are pulled deeper into the treacherous trap of the mountain terrain where they stumble upon the same set of ominous stairs.