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Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War. [2]
Three U.S. Navy members are onboard the flight and are held hostage; one is shot and dumped off the plane into the tarmac. While this incident happened at night in both real-life and film, the latter depicts the setting as Algiers as opposed to Beirut in the former. Additional henchmen board the plane along with the released hijacker.
Real Life is a 1979 American comedy film starring Albert Brooks (in his directorial debut), who also co-authored the screenplay alongside Monica Johnson and Harry Shearer.It is a spoof of the 1973 reality television program An American Family and portrays a documentary filmmaker named Albert Brooks who attempts to live with and film a dysfunctional family for one full year.
Fly Away Home (a.k.a. Flying Wild and Father Goose) is a 1996 family adventure drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin , Jeff Daniels , and Dana Delany . Fly Away Home was released on September 13, 1996, by Columbia Pictures .
Scenes featuring the cast were shot on board the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, [6] while additional scenes were shot on board the similar Nimitz and Carl Vinson. [ 7 ] The film was shot in Thailand, Australia ( Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales and Flinders Ranges in South Australia ), and New Zealand.
Flightplan is a 2005 mystery psychological thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray.It stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently widowed American aircraft engineer living in Berlin, who flies back to the U.S. with her daughter and her husband's body.
Vista Pacific Airlines flight 7500, a Boeing 747-300, departs from Los Angeles to Tokyo Haneda.Passengers onboard include a group of two vacationing couples, Lyn and Jack, and Brad and Pia, who have secretly broken up; a thief named Jake; a suspicious businessman traveling with a strange wooden box, Lance Morrell; a young woman named Raquel; newlyweds Rick and Liz; and the goth Jacinta.
The real United Airlines Flight 93 taxiing on September 8, 2001. Contrary to other films on the subject, such as United 93, the film tells the events from multiple perspectives (passengers and crew, family members, government officials, air traffic controllers, etc.) Despite this, the film features numerous historical discrepancies.