Drama

Flight

- Some miracles are not what they seem.

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.

Release Date : 2012-11-02

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount PicturesImageMoversParkes+MacDonald Image Nation

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Whip Whitaker

Original Name : Denzel Washington

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hugh Lang

Original Name : Don Cheadle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nicole

Original Name : Kelly Reilly

Gender : Female

Character Name : Harling Mays

Original Name : John Goodman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charlie Anderson

Original Name : Bruce Greenwood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ken Evans

Original Name : Brian Geraghty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Margaret Thomason

Original Name : Tamara Tunie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Katerina Marquez

Original Name : Nadine Velazquez

Gender : Female

Character Name : Avington Carr

Original Name : Peter Gerety

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deana

Original Name : Garcelle Beauvais

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ellen Block

Original Name : Melissa Leo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Son on Plane

Original Name : Carter Cabassa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father on Plane

Original Name : Adam C. Edwards

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kip

Original Name : Conor O'Neill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tiki Pot

Original Name : Charlie E. Schmidt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Schecter

Original Name : Will Sherrod

Gender : Male

Character Name : Camelia Satou

Original Name : Boni Yanagisawa

Gender : Female

Character Name : Fran

Original Name : Adam Tomei

Gender : Male

Character Name : Derek Hogue

Original Name : Dane Davenport

Gender : Male

Character Name : Field Reporter

Original Name : John Crow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Craig Matson

Original Name : E. Roger Mitchell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Kenan

Original Name : Ravi Kapoor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Morning Nurse

Original Name : Jill Jane Clements

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mark Mellon

Original Name : Tommy Kane

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gaunt Young Man

Original Name : James Badge Dale

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waitress

Original Name : Susie Spear Purcell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bartender

Original Name : Philip Pavel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Piers Morgan

Original Name : Piers Morgan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Tilmon

Original Name : Jim Tilmon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pentecostal Minister

Original Name : Charles Z. Gardner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Len Caldwell

Original Name : Tom Nowicki

Gender : Male

Character Name : Carr's Business Guy / Stalking Reporter

Original Name : Jason Benjamin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Carr's Attorney

Original Name : Ric Reitz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Whip's Dad

Original Name : Timothy Adams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Will

Original Name : Darius Woods

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trevor

Original Name : Ron Caldwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Two Beer Barry

Original Name : Dylan Kussman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sheila

Original Name : Janet Metzger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vicky Evans

Original Name : Bethany Anne Lind

Gender : Female

Character Name : Peach Tree Employee

Original Name : Sharon Blackwood

Gender : Female

Character Name : Peach Tree Employee

Original Name : Pam Smith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Will Whitaker Jr.

Original Name : Justin Martin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tilda Banden

Original Name : Shannon Walshe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Amanda Anderson

Original Name : Rhoda Griffis

Gender : Female

Character Name : Officer Edmonds

Original Name : Michael Beasley

Gender : Male

Character Name : TV Reporter

Original Name : Ted Hall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl on Elevator

Original Name : Laila Pruitt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mom on Elevator

Original Name : Precious Bright

Gender : Male

Character Name : NTSB Officer at Hearing

Original Name : Steve Coulter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prison Guard

Original Name : Ted Huckabee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radio Talk Show Host (voice)

Original Name : Sarah Clark

Gender : Female

Character Name : Radio Talk Show Host (voice)

Original Name : Vinnie Hasson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radio Stock Market Reporter (voice)

Original Name : Randy Thom

Gender : Male

Character Name : Air Traffic Controller (voice)

Original Name : Dennis P. Wise

Gender : Male

Character Name : Air Traffic Controller (voice)

Original Name : Paul Volle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Whip's Dad (voice)

Original Name : Hal Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Will (voice)

Original Name : Kwesi Boakye

Gender : Male

Character Name : Naked Girl in Helmet (uncredited)

Original Name : Jennifer Olympia Bentley

Gender : Female

Reviews

tmdb15435519

@tmdb15435519

2021-06-23

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 feel good ending, what more do you 1-3 star people want?? It's Denzel!!

tmdb28039023

@tmdb28039023

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 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.