Flight

About Flight

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.

Robert Zemeckis's Flight is a 2012 drama film. Released in February 2012, it runs 138 minutes.

Its themes are airplane, alcoholism, cautionary, and pilot.

Denzel Washington appears as Whip Whitaker, Don Cheadle as Hugh Lang, Kelly Reilly as Nicole, and John Goodman as Harling Mays. The screenplay is by John Gatins. It comes from ImageMovers and Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation. It streams on Paramount Plus Essential and Starz Apple TV channel in the United States.

Sully, Aftermath, and Emergency Declaration make useful companions to Flight, all filed under airplane accident and emergency landing. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 6,627 votes and it carries a R rating.