Flight | 2012 | R | - 7.6.10
A capable commercial airline pilot (Denzel Washington) performs an emergency landing in a substandard airliner carrying over 100 people and saves almost everyone on board. Although he seems to be a hero who averted disaster despite faulty equipment, an official investigation discovers that he had alcohol in his system during the flight. Also with John Goodman, Bruce Greenwood, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Nadine Velazquez, Tamara Tunie and Melissa Leo. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. [2:20]
► A woman massages a seated man's injured leg from the ankle to mid-thigh, and then leans forward and kisses him; the camera cuts to a morning shot of her in bed under a sheet, revealing her bare back, shoulders, arms and the side of one breast with the man sitting beside her wearing a T-shirt (sex is implied).
► A man in a hospital gown with his back to the camera reveals his full bare buttocks. A few women wear low-cut blouses that reveal moderate cleavage. A woman wears a short skirt that reveals partial thighs and in another scene, she wears a long slip that reveals arms, shoulders, cleavage and lower legs. Backstage in a theatrical dressing room, we see two men nude from the hips up, revealing bare chests, arms, shoulders, backs and buttocks; a third man asks a woman to photograph one of the men's genitals and she makes a crude remark. Two scenes feature a man wearing briefs, and lying on a bathroom floor (we see his bare back, chest, shoulders, arms and legs). One scene shows a man wearing a robe while sitting on a porch chair, revealing lower legs and one inner knee and upper thigh. A man wearing a T-shirt and shorts sits in an armchair.
► In a hospital, a friend visits an injured pilot and brings him a stack of pornographic magazines that he refers to as "stroke magazines," implying masturbation and possible addiction (please see the Substance Use category for more details).
► A man tells a woman that she could be his second wife and she smiles. A woman tells a man that she used to be a "masseuse," but really was a sex-industry massage girl. An attorney asks a bodyguard whether a man in a hotel room had any girlfriends visit him in the night and the guard says, "No."
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► A plane rolls to inverted status causing a child to fall out of a seat, other passengers hang upside down and a flight attendant dies when a shelf falls on her head and neck (we see a pool of blood); another attendant receives gashes to her neck and cheek and we see blood flowing. We see a field where many people are lying in the grass and others try to help them; several people have a little blood on their faces.
► A plane crash is shown once in real time and twice in replays on TV and in a safety hearing.
► We see a man in a hospital bed telling a visitor that his pelvis and upper legs were snapped and crushed in a plane accident, that it was the will of God and pre-ordained, and that living and coming out of a coma was a blessing (we see blood on the bandages up and down his leg and several metal pins running completely through his leg with blood seeping at the entry points). A man in an elevator wears a Band Aid on his forehead, from where blood begins to leak and he holds a handkerchief to his nostril and sniffs after being told that it is bleeding. We see some blood on a man's forehead and a few bloody streaks on a toilet seat, where he presumably had fallen and bumped his head.
► A pilot awakens from unconsciousness and we see through his bloodshot eyes very blurry shapes of people; safety board officials in his hospital room tell him that six people died in the mishap and we hear that the pilot has a bruised eye (bandaged), sprained knee (in a brace) and torn wrist ligaments (wrist in a brace); he walks with a cane for a few days and seems to heal quickly.
► A woman argues twice with her landlord and the second time he raises a baseball bat to strike her until another man sees the fracas, races into the apartment and punches the landlord, who falls to the floor (there's no blood). A pilot asks his girlfriend to fly with him in a small aircraft and she refuses because he is not cleared to fly; they argue and she leaves the next morning after writing a goodbye note that he finds, and throws a whiskey bottle against a wall, smashing it. A man with a shotgun in his hand answers a knock on his door, puts down the gun as he recognizes the caller, the two men argue about the causes of an airliner crash, they join a third man in an aircraft hangar where the wreckage of the plane is being examined for malfunctioning parts and all three men argue.
► A man argues in several scenes with his two legal advisors about a safety hearing; during one argument, one attorney loses control, curses and calls the first man several names. A man and a woman argue about a safety hearing and his drinking habits (please see the Substance Use category for more details). A man argues on the phone loudly with his ex-wife about child support. A man argues with his ex-wife and his teenage son, who shouts and yells at him to leave; the man embraces his son and the son shouts more loudly, pushes him away and the man leaves. During a safety hearing, a man jumps up and shouts, "I object!"; the panel moderator replies that this is not a court trial and the man shouts more loudly that he objects anyway and the scene ends.
► A cancer patient in a hospital walks into a stairwell with a wheeled stand that carries three IV bags connected to his arms; pale and facially bruised, he tells two other patients that he received cancer from God and might as well smoke as he borrows cigarettes saying that he will pass them out in the basement cancer ward and says, "The basement is where they keep cancer people." A man tells a pilot not to be seen drinking alcohol anywhere and not to purchase any in a store. A man says that he was so drunk once that he had vomitus all over his chest and abdomen and was wearing part of his girlfriend's clothing.
► A prisoner in a prison lounge is shown with two arms full of gang tattoos and other designs. We see homemade tattoo designs inked on several of a woman's fingers, her wrist and shoulder.
► A pilot trips when he steps onto the gangway of an airplane (please see the Substance Use category for more details) and in the cockpit, he turns the controls over to the co-pilot and sleeps in the pilot's chair, scaring the co-pilot and a flight attendant. Twice, a pilot wakes up from nightmares about a recent plane crash.
► We see a church and flowers around the portrait of a female flight attendant who died in a plane crash at a funeral.
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