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Storyline

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Released

2012-11-02
Revenue

$161,772,575
Budget

$31,000,000
Runtime

2hr 18m
Genre

Drama
Status

Released
Language

English
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Production

Paramount Pictures, ImageMovers, Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation

Crew

Robert Zemeckis

Director

John Gatins

Writer

Jack Rapke

Producer

Keywords:

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Cast

Denzel Washington

Whip Whitaker

Don Cheadle

Hugh Lang

Kelly Reilly

Nicole

John Goodman

Harling Mays

Bruce Greenwood

Charlie Anderson

Brian Geraghty

Ken Evans

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Deana

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Ellen Block

Carter Cabassa

Son on Plane

Adam C. Edwards

Father on Plane

Conor O'Neill

Kip

Charlie E. Schmidt

Tiki Pot

Will Sherrod

Schecter

Boni Yanagisawa

Camelia Satou

Adam Tomei

Fran

Dane Davenport

Derek Hogue

John Crow

Field Reporter

E. Roger Mitchell

Craig Matson

Ravi Kapoor

Dr. Kenan

Jill Jane Clements

Morning Nurse

Tommy Kane

Mark Mellon

James Badge Dale

Gaunt Young Man

Susie Spear Purcell

Waitress

Philip Pavel

Bartender

Piers Morgan

Jim Tilmon

Charles Z. Gardner

Pentecostal Minister

Tom Nowicki

Len Caldwell

Jason Benjamin

Carr's Business Guy / Stalking Reporter

Ric Reitz

Carr's Attorney

Timothy Adams

Whip's Dad

Darius Woods

Young Will

Ron Caldwell

Trevor

Dylan Kussman

Two Beer Barry

Janet Metzger

Sheila

Bethany Anne Lind

Vicky Evans

Sharon Blackwood

Peach Tree Employee

Pam Smith

Peach Tree Employee

Justin Martin

Will Whitaker Jr.

Shannon Walshe

Tilda Banden

Rhoda Griffis

Amanda Anderson

Michael Beasley

Officer Edmonds

Ted Hall

TV Reporter

Laila Pruitt

Girl on Elevator

Precious Bright

Mom on Elevator

Steve Coulter

NTSB Officer at Hearing

Ted Huckabee

Prison Guard

Sarah Clark

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Vinnie Hasson

Radio Talk Show Host (voice)

Randy Thom

Radio Stock Market Reporter (voice)

Dennis P. Wise

Air Traffic Controller (voice)

Paul Volle

Air Traffic Controller (voice)

Hal Williams

Whip's Dad (voice)

Kwesi Boakye

Young Will (voice)

Jennifer Olympia Bentley

Naked Girl in Helmet (uncredited)

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Reviews for Flight

A Review by tmdb15435519 8

Written by tmdb15435519 on 2021-04-15

With Robert Zemekis at the helm, it has to be good, right? Pretty much. Not the strongest performance by Cheadle, but otherwise the cast ... read more

A Review by tmdb28039023 6

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-09-13

The title Flight is a perfect illustration that brevity really is the soul of wit. Its six letters describe not only the protagonist's occup... read more

The title Flight is a perfect illustration that brevity really is the soul of wit. Its six letters describe not only the protagonist's occupation (flying), but also what he spends most of the film doing (fleeing), and if we only added a seventh letter (-y), it would describe the character himself. The film itself could stand to be shorter, but overall it's no exception to the rule that no good movie is too long. In addition to illustrating the aforementioned Shakespearean principle, director Robert Zemeckis inverts a famous Simpsonian maxim; in this case, alcohol is first the solution and then the cause of all the problems. One can identify a compulsive smoker when he lights a cigarette with the butt of the previous one; Similarly, one can spot an alcoholic when he soothes his hangover with leftover beer from the day before — and that’s just the start of commercial pilot William 'Whip' Whitaker's (Denzel Washington) breakfast of champions. Whip is still drinking in the cabin of Flight 227 bound for Atlanta, making himself a screwdriver, or several, before taking a nap. He wakes with a start when the plane begins to nosedive. Unable to regain control, Whip is forced to make a controlled crash landing in an open field, saving most of the "102 souls" on board. This includes a maneuver where Whip flies the plane upside down, and it's not just him but also Zemeckis who takes a huge risk and lives to reap the reward. The scene avoids becoming unintentionally funny because part of its purpose is precisely to provide some much-needed humor to ease the almost unbearable tension; at the same time, it manages to stretch the audience's suspension of disbelief without breaking it for two reasons: 1) it has real precedent, and 2) it's exactly the kind of thing someone flying under the influence would do. There’s no doubt that Whip has the expertise to pull off this maneuver successfully; the question is whether he would have dared to execute it while sober. Moreover,, the cause of the accident is a mechanical failure completely unrelated to Whip's sorry physical state. But Flight is not, like Druk, an apology for alcoholism. In an inferior film the vehicle, be it a plane or a car, would crash as a direct result of the driver/pilot's drunkenness, and the driver/pilot would be the only or one of the few survivors, making him feel even guiltier. Flight instead debunks the myth of invincibility that every alcoholic invokes by leading us to believe, practically to the end, that Whip might very well be literally invincible. "Maybe I'm a fool," Whip muses, "because if I'd just told one more lie, I might have walked away from the whole mess." But he knows as well as we do that after that “one more lie” there would be another lie, and another, and another, and that eventually his lies would have caught up with him, because ultimately there is no escaping the negative effects of addiction. Like the similar Clean and Sober, Flight loses momentum with a Romantic Subplot that a nearly two-and-a-half-hour film doesn't need; on the other hand, I really liked Washington’s and Zemeckis's attention to detail — for example, when in the middle of crash landing Whip has the presence of mind to make a flight attendant tell her son that she loves him so that the box black can record it (in case they don’t make it), or the way his facial language unequivocally expresses the world of difference, the passage from hell to paradise, that exists before that first line of cocaine — supplied by John Goodman in a pair of hilarious cameos, each one heralded by the presence of “Sympathy for the Devil” on the soundtrack — and after.

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A Review by tmdb15435519

With Robert Zemekis at the helm, it has to be good, right? Pretty much. Not the strongest performance by Cheadle, but otherwise the cast is great. John Goodman is a welcome surprise half-way through and really brings this home. With a...