Flight [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: Robert Zemeckis, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Alan Silvestri

Overview

In Robert Zemeckis' drama Flight, alcoholic pilot Whip Whittaker (Denzel Washington) does a miraculous job crash-landing a plane that has suffered a severe mechanical breakdown in midair, however the mandated investigation into the incident will inevitably lead to the discovery that he was flying the plane while drunk and on cocaine. As he attempts to sober up, Whip befriends a fellow addict he meets during his post-accident stay in the hospital. Soon he fails in his attempts to white-knuckle himself to sobriety, and with the help of his favorite drug-dealer (John Goodman) and his lawyer (Don Cheadle), Whip must prepare to testify about what happened on that fateful flight.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/05/2013
UPC:	0097361700144
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	R
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:18:00

Special Features

Closed Caption; ; Blu-ray Disc 1; Origins of Flight; The Making of Flight; Anatomy of a Plane Crash; Q & A Highlights

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Don Cheadle	Actor
Denzel Washington	Whip
Kelly Reilly	Actor
John Goodman	Actor
Brian Geraghty	Actor
Bruce Greenwood	Actor
Tamara Tunie	Actor
Nadine Velazquez	Actor
Peter Gerety	Actor
Garcelle Beauvais	Actor
Melissa Leo	Actor
Carter Cabassa	Actor
Adam Ciesielski	Father on Plane
Charlie E. Schmidt Jr.	Actor
Charlie E. Schmidt, Jr.	Tiki Pot
Will Sherrod	Actor
Boni Yanagisawa	Actor
Adam Tomei	Actor
Dane Davenport	Actor
John Crow	Actor
E. Roger Mitchell	Actor
Ravi Kapoor	Actor
Jill Jane Clements	Actor
Tommy Kane	Actor
James Badge Dale	Actor
Susie Spear	Actor
Philip Pavel	Actor
Jim Tilmon	Actor
Charles Z. Gardner	Actor
Rev. Charles Z. Gardner	Pentecostal Minister
Tom Nowicki	Actor
Ric Reitz	Actor
Timothy James Adams	Actor
Darius Woods	Actor
Ron Caldwell	Actor
Dylan Kussman	Actor
Janet Metzger	Actor
Bethany Anne Lind	Actor
Sharon Blackwood	Actor
Pam Smith	Actor
Jason Benjamin	Actor
Justin Martin	Actor
Shannon Walshe	Actor
Rhoda Griffis	Actor
Michael Beasley	Actor
Ted Hall	Actor
Laila Pruitt	Actor
Precious Bright	Actor
Steve Coulter	Actor
Ted Huckabee	Actor
Adam C. Edwards	Father on Plane
Alan Silvestri	Composer
Conor O'Neill	Kip
John Crown	Actor
Susie Spear Purcell	Waitress
Hal Williams	Voices
Kwesi Boakye	Voices
Victoria Burrows	Actor
Charlie Schmidt	Actor

Technical Credits

John Gatins

John Gatins	Screenwriter
Robert Zemeckis	Producer
Laurie MacDonald	Producer
Walter Parkes	Producer
Jack Rapke	Producer
Steve Starkey	Producer,Second Unit Director
Cherylanne Martin	Executive Producer,Producer
Randy Thom	Sound/Sound Designer
Scott Boland	Casting
Victoria Burrows	Casting
Charlie Croughwell	Stunts
Michael Lantieri	Special Effects Supervisor
Luca Kouimelis	Script Supervisor
Christopher Barnett	Sound Effects
Heather Kelton	Producer
Lorenzo Hall	Special Effects
Brian D. Smith	Special Effects

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Flight
1. Scene 1 [7:11]
2. Scene 2 [2:20]
3. Scene 3 [4:36]
4. Scene 4 [2:57]
5. Scene 5 [5:19]
6. Scene 6 [3:50]
7. Scene 7 [2:47]
8. Scene 8 [5:35]
9. Scene 9 [1:17]
10. Scene 10 [9:43]
11. Scene 11 [6:18]
12. Scene 12 [8:44]
13. Scene 13 [9:22]
14. Scene 14 [9:20]
15. Scene 15 [7:23]

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Editorial Reviews

Director Robert Zemeckis is already responsible for one of the most harrowing plane crashes in movie history: the disastrous voyage that led to Tom Hanks being Cast Away. Twelve years later, Zemeckis outdoes himself with the opening 20 minutes of Flight, in which alcohol- and cocaine-fueled Captain Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) must make a miraculous crash landing when the jet he's piloting suffers a severe mechanical breakdown in midair. His quick thinking saves all but six lives on the plane, but those deaths trigger a federal investigation that seems destined to uncover his substance abuse. That opening act is a piece of peerless filmmaking, an unrelentingly tense and upsetting evocation of a near-death experience. Sadly, the rest of Flight is an old-fashioned addiction drama with Whitaker struggling to stay sober, but refusing to accept anyone else's help to do so. This is the kind of role actors live for, after all who wouldn't want to play a guy who's both a national hero and an addict, and Washington certainly demands your attention. He commands the screen, playing the gifted pilot's cool-in-a-crisis authority as effectively as he does Whip's self-loathing when he starts hitting the bottle time after time. Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins turn this battle between Whip's two selves into a basic visual scheme between alcohol and religion. Talk of God and higher powers peppers the film, and for all of the times we see the sloshed captain swigging a Budweiser or a gallon of vodka, we see him confronted with religious iconography just as often. Putting the central conflict of the picture in such stark terms would work better if the film were streamlined, but Flight clocks in at about 135 minutes, and it wallows in Whip's contradictions for so long that the symbolism quickly grows heavy-handed. There's little narrative drive, so we wait for the big moment when Whitaker has to testify about what happened, wondering if he's going to come clean or continue his slide into self-destruction. A very strong cast is mostly underutilized: Don Cheadle doesn't have enough to do as Whip's lawyer, Bruce Greenwood is fine as the beleagured man's best friend, and Kelly Reilly does what she can with the worst character in the movie -- a fellow junkie who strikes up a friendship with Whitaker when they are in the hospital together. Only John Goodman makes an impression as Whip's freewheeling dealer -- whose every entrance is unsubtly scored to the Rolling Stones classic "Sympathy for the Devil."" Flight isn't a bad movie, but it isn't a good one either. After his 12-year detour into motion-capture filmmaking, it continues Zemeckis' attempts to deal with big ideas -- it's a natural follow-up to Forrest Gump, Contact, and Cast Away -- but he's shed practically all of the impish wit that made his earliest work, like Used Cars and Back to the Future, so memorable. He's matured in the least appealing sense of the phrase.