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.
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Worldwide
- $162M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 2 nominations
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 2 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Actor
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Flight returned 5.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $31M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $162M
- Release date
- Feb 22, 2012
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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