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Flight (2012 film)
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. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Washington's performance and Zemeckis' 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.
Airline pilot and US Navy Veteran Captain Whip Whitaker snorts cocaine to stay alert after a long night of drinking in his Orlando hotel room with Katerina Marquez, a flight attendant he will be flying with later that morning. He pilots SouthJet Air Flight 227 to Atlanta, which experiences severe turbulence during takeoff.
Meanwhile, amateur photographer and drug addict Nicole Maggen buys heroin and has an argument with her landlord. She suffers an overdose after injecting herself with the drug.
On the SouthJet Air flight, co-pilot Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. He is jolted awake as the plane suffers a mechanical fault and goes into a steep dive. Whip regains control by pulling out of the dive and rolling the aircraft inverted, flying over Nicole's motel, and makes a controlled crash-landing in an open field. On impact, Whip suffers a blow to his head and loses consciousness.
Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with moderate injuries and is greeted by his old friend, Charlie Anderson, who now represents the airline's pilots union after retiring from flying. Whip learns his piloting skill saved 96 out of 102 aboard the plane, losing two crew members and four passengers, with 37 severe injuries. Charlie tells Whip that flight attendant Camelia Satou and Katerina both died in the crash. Head flight attendant Margaret Thomason is also in the hospital with minor injuries. Evans is in a coma after suffering a severe head injury but is expected to recover. Whip is visited by friend and drug dealer Harling Mays, who proffers porn magazines, a carton of cigarettes, and a pint of vodka, the last of which Whip refuses. Whip sneaks away for a cigarette and meets Nicole, recovering from an overdose in the same hospital, along with a cheerful chemotherapy patient. The next morning, Mays picks up Whip from the hospital.
Having retired to his late father's farm, Whip meets Charlie and attorney Hugh Lang, who explain that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) performed a drug test while he was unconscious. Results showed that Whip was intoxicated during the flight, although Hugh gets the toxicology report voided on technical grounds.
Whip visits Nicole as she is vacating her apartment and relocates her to the farm. They become intimate but his drinking habits clash with Nicole's attempts to stay drug-free. Later, he attends a funeral for Katerina. He approaches Margaret after the funeral and asks her to tell the NTSB that he was sober enough to fly.
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Flight (2012 film)
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. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Washington's performance and Zemeckis' 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.
Airline pilot and US Navy Veteran Captain Whip Whitaker snorts cocaine to stay alert after a long night of drinking in his Orlando hotel room with Katerina Marquez, a flight attendant he will be flying with later that morning. He pilots SouthJet Air Flight 227 to Atlanta, which experiences severe turbulence during takeoff.
Meanwhile, amateur photographer and drug addict Nicole Maggen buys heroin and has an argument with her landlord. She suffers an overdose after injecting herself with the drug.
On the SouthJet Air flight, co-pilot Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. He is jolted awake as the plane suffers a mechanical fault and goes into a steep dive. Whip regains control by pulling out of the dive and rolling the aircraft inverted, flying over Nicole's motel, and makes a controlled crash-landing in an open field. On impact, Whip suffers a blow to his head and loses consciousness.
Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with moderate injuries and is greeted by his old friend, Charlie Anderson, who now represents the airline's pilots union after retiring from flying. Whip learns his piloting skill saved 96 out of 102 aboard the plane, losing two crew members and four passengers, with 37 severe injuries. Charlie tells Whip that flight attendant Camelia Satou and Katerina both died in the crash. Head flight attendant Margaret Thomason is also in the hospital with minor injuries. Evans is in a coma after suffering a severe head injury but is expected to recover. Whip is visited by friend and drug dealer Harling Mays, who proffers porn magazines, a carton of cigarettes, and a pint of vodka, the last of which Whip refuses. Whip sneaks away for a cigarette and meets Nicole, recovering from an overdose in the same hospital, along with a cheerful chemotherapy patient. The next morning, Mays picks up Whip from the hospital.
Having retired to his late father's farm, Whip meets Charlie and attorney Hugh Lang, who explain that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) performed a drug test while he was unconscious. Results showed that Whip was intoxicated during the flight, although Hugh gets the toxicology report voided on technical grounds.
Whip visits Nicole as she is vacating her apartment and relocates her to the farm. They become intimate but his drinking habits clash with Nicole's attempts to stay drug-free. Later, he attends a funeral for Katerina. He approaches Margaret after the funeral and asks her to tell the NTSB that he was sober enough to fly.