| Flight of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition) (2004)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Dennis Quaid |
Frank Towns
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| Giovanni Ribisi |
Elliott
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| Miranda Otto |
Kelly
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| Tyrese |
A.J. (as Tyrese Gibson)
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| Tony Curran |
Rodney
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| Sticky Fingaz |
Jeremy (as Kirk Jones)
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| Jacob Vargas |
Sammi
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| Hugh Laurie |
Ian
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| Scott Michael Campbell |
Liddle
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| Kevork Malikyan |
Rady
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| Tyrese Gibson |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Adventure |
| Director |
John Moore |
| Producer |
William Aldrich; Alex Blum; T. Alex Blum |
| Writer |
Lukas Heller; Scott Frank; Edward Burns |
| Studio |
20th Century Fox |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
113 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.0 |
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| Plot |
| As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single side, Dual layer |
| UPC |
024543174530 |
| Release Date |
3/1/2005 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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