Flight of the Phoenix

Year: 2004

Country: USA

Tagline: The only way out is up  »

Plot: Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix starring James Stewart. Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid) pilots a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers who are returning home after shutting down an oil field in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The plane is overloaded on take off, and soon they hit a violent sandstorm that causes them to crash. They are now stranded over 200 miles off-course and in the harsh desert terrain. Frank must maintain order and ration the little food and water among the survivors and wait for someone to rescue them. As time goes by, they realize their chance of being rescued is zero. An odd man named Elliott (Giovanni Ribisi) who caught a ride with them suggested that they build a new plane out of parts from the undamaged cargo plane. He just happens to be a plane design engineer. They think he is crazy, but what else can they do. Under Elliott's command, the survivors begin to construct the plane, which they name the Phoenix. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)On a flight over the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. A group of survivors stranded in the desert with no hope of rescue build a new plane out of parts from their old one in hopes of flying back to civilization.

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