Flight (2012)

Directed by

Robert Zemeckis

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 6,493 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An airline pilot performs a miraculous crash landing that saves almost everyone on board. But an investigation into the accident begins to uncover his struggles with alcoholism.

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What happens

Flight is a 2012 American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by John Gatins and produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Steve Starkey, Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain in a different light. Flight premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 14, 2012, and was theatrically released the following month on November 2, 2012 by Paramount Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Washington's performance and Zemeckis's return to live-action filmmaking, his first such film since Cast Away and What Lies Beneath in 2000. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $161.8 million against a production budget of $31 million. Flight appeared on multiple critics' year-end top ten lists and received two nominations at the 85th Academy Awards for Best Actor (Washington) and Best Original Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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