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Your support makes all the difference.This solemn look at addiction never really surpasses its terrifying plane crash in the opening sequence. However, Denzel Washington (pictured), on top form, holds it ably together with a convincing performance as a sozzled pilot, Captain Whip Whitaker.
His functioning alcoholic manages to miraculously land his bust-up passenger jet, which is seemingly in fatal freefall. Six passengers are lost, but the rest are saved and Whip is hailed a hero until the toxicology report comes in. It feels like it should be a true story, but this gripping oddity is pure fiction.
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