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6.9Commercial 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.
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Whip Whitaker
- Don Cheadle as Hugh Lang
- Kelly Reilly as Nicole
- John Goodman as Harling Mays
- Bruce Greenwood as Charlie Anderson
- Brian Geraghty as Ken Evans
Themes
- airplane
- confession
- investigation
- pilot
- emergency landing
- flight
- alcoholism
- f word
- hangover
- airplane accident
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
394,854 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 15 wins & 45 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert Zemeckis
- Written by
- John Gatins
- Produced by
- Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald Steve Starkey Robert Zemeckis Jack Rapke
- Starring
- Denzel Washington Don Cheadle Kelly Reilly John Goodman Bruce Greenwood Melissa Leo
- Cinematography
- Don Burgess
- Edited by
- Jeremiah O'Driscoll
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri
- Production companies
- Parkes+ MacDonald Image Nation ImageMovers
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release dates
- October 14, 2012 ( 2012-10-14 ) ( New York Film Festival ) November 2, 2012 ( 2012-11-02 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 138 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $31 million
- Box office
- $161.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 138
- FilmAffinity ID
- 526099
- Official website
- www.paramount.com/flight
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- Flight (2012 film)
- publication date
- 2013-01-24
- title
- Flight
- capital cost
- 31000000
- box office
- 161800000
- review score
- 76/100
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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.