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Certificate 12A

Cast Bob Brown Paul Ditchfield Hugh Laurie Miranda Otto Dennis Quaid Giovanni Ribisi

Directors John Moore

Screenwriters Scott Frank Edward Burns

Running Time 113 minutes

Flight Of The Phoenix
Dennis Quaid in John Moore's remake of the cracking survival story with a distinctive feel and a surprising twist

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Plot
After picking up a crew of oil workers, pilot Frank Towns (Quaid) runs into a sandstorm and crashes into the Gobi desert. Survival prospects seem dim, until a mysterious passenger (Ribisi) announces that he's an aircraft designer and they can build a new plane from the wreckage.

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