m3
4th March 2005
12A
Action/ Adventure
John Moore
Lukas Heller (1965)
Scott Frank
113 minutes
Dennis Quaid - Frank Towns
Tyrese - A.J. (as Tyrese Gibson)
Giovanni Ribisi - Elliott
Miranda Otto - Kelly
Tony Curran - Rodney
Sticky Fingaz - Jeremy (as Kirk Jones)
Jacob Vargas - Sammi
Hugh Laurie - Ian
Scott Michael Campbell - Liddle
Kevork Malikyan - Rady
Jared Padalecki - Davis
Paul Ditchfield - Dr. Gerber
Martin Hindy - Newman (as Martin 'Mako' Hindy)
Bob Brown - Kyle
Anthony Wong - Lead Smuggler
Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of the classic 1965 movie starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough, Directed by Robert Aldrich about the survival of a group of passengers stranded in the desert after a their plane Phoenix crashes into the Gobi desert...  In this version the son William Aldrich directs an modern cast, whereby a group of oil riggers have to put their wits together in order to survive. Starring Dennis Quaid, you might say this is a desert version of The Day After Tomorrow...
www.flightoffthephoenix.com
(screenplay)