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Flying Lessons

  • 2010
  • R
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
487
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Hal Holbrook, Christine Lahti, Nikki Deloach, Maggie Grace, and Ian Anthony Dale in Flying Lessons (2010)
With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.
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With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a ta... Read allWith her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who... Read allWith her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.

  • Director
    • Derek Magyar
  • Writer
    • Thomas Kuehl
  • Stars
    • Maggie Grace
    • Christine Lahti
    • Hal Holbrook
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    487
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Derek Magyar
    • Writer
      • Thomas Kuehl
    • Stars
      • Maggie Grace
      • Christine Lahti
      • Hal Holbrook
    • 8User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Maggie Grace
    Maggie Grace
    • Sophie Conway
    Christine Lahti
    Christine Lahti
    • Caroline Conway
    Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook
    • Harry Pleasant
    Cary Elwes
    Cary Elwes
    • Steven Jennings
    Jonathan Tucker
    Jonathan Tucker
    • Billy
    Michael O'Neill
    Michael O'Neill
    • Chief Dobbs
    Joanna Cassidy
    Joanna Cassidy
    • Totty Kuspert
    Rick Gonzalez
    Rick Gonzalez
    • Benji
    Nikki Deloach
    Nikki Deloach
    • Mila
    Maggie Castle
    Maggie Castle
    • Shelly
    Ian Anthony Dale
    Ian Anthony Dale
    • Lance
    Alyssa de Boisblanc
    Alyssa de Boisblanc
    • Annie
    • (as Alyssa LeBlanc)
    Gabriel Angeli
    • Bartender Country Club
    Andrea LeBlanc
    • Jill
    Daniel
    • Bartender Maverick
    Benjamin Gill
    • Paper Boy
    Adam Cagley
    Adam Cagley
    • Teen Punk 1
    Mickey Meyer
    Mickey Meyer
    • Teen Punk 2
    • Director
      • Derek Magyar
    • Writer
      • Thomas Kuehl
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    9shallquist-960-986313

    Great heart felt movie. Deserved an Oscar nod.

    My honey rented this movie and I had very low expectations. The movie started off with me expecting a story about a spoiled rich kid. It quickly transformed into a story about the struggles of young lost girl who returned home to a drunken mother. Still I thought, what a rich spoiled brat, but then she took a job caring for a retired sheriff with Alzheimer's. Her transformation and the story of a man trying to remember his past sucked you in!

    Maggie Grace does a phenomenal job in her role. It's quite a true performance and shows her true abilities! Above and beyond Taken. Hal Holbrok at 85 years old put's in a great performance. His skill sucks you in and you really feel his plight!

    The final message at the end, was trans-formative and compelling! I give this movie 9 out of 10 stars!
    10gradyharp

    A Complex Interplay of Damaged Characters

    It is not evident why this film, released in 2010, did not attract more attention. In many ways it is a tough little story that takes audience concentration throughout to make it all fit together, but the impact of the messages it delivers make it one of the more impressive films of the decade!

    The film opens with down on her luck Sophie Conway (Maggie Grace) stumbling through a drug and alcohol addled existence in Los Angeles, her life in shambles as she has sex on a bus with stranger Benji (Rick Gonzalez). With her life at a crossroads, the 25 year old Sophie returns home to the small town of Lompoc (a little town in Santa Barbara County) she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends - Mila (Nikki Deloach) - and lovers - Billy (Jonathan Tucker) - she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother (Christine Lahti) and her married paramour Steven (Cary Elwes), and Harry Pleasant (Hal Holbrook), an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember. Each of the characters in the story is trying to mentally escape a past that is painful and their interaction slowly reveals the truths of their past experiences, why they have grown apart, and how facing cloudy memories and struggling to make them clear can actually change their lives.

    Hal Holbrook gives an incredibly thoughtful and eloquent portrayal of the cruelties of Alzheimer's Disease, Christine Lahti returns to the screen in a potent portrayal of a woman who attempts to disguise her life disappointments with alcohol, Maggie Grace completely inhabits the tough role of Sophie whose inability to remember the details of her father's suicide influences all of the characters' lives, and Jonathan Tucker is the epitome of a lad unable to forgive the past and move forward out of the small town into the world of adulthood. Derek Magyar directs Thomas Kuehl impeccable script with a natural ease -a factor that allows the story to unfold slowly like entering a strange other place for the first time. This is a very fine film that deserves a wide audience.

    Grady Harp
    2ebokneez

    Too bad

    Only saw 30 minutes, too bad about not providing CC. not engaging.

    Ilike the main actors but we see early on that lahti is a wino with a ton of money and possibly her daughter

    is slutty. then hal holbrook seems to think he's still a cop yet it appears he is too old to be one. Too slow for me, and the lighting was unrealistic. the girl's old boyfriend is also a bad actor. that sort of casting can ruin an iffy movie.

    I suppose if It had CC I could watch more but since they do not weant to spend to small pittance required to provide that for people, I don't have the time to read the lius of the thespians.
    1pariszone

    A sappy stinker of a movie

    I rarely would give 1 out of 10 to any movie but this one barely makes a 1.

    Deadly slow moving, overly sappy and sentimental with unlikable characters, with the possible exception of Hal Holbrook's character "Harry Pleasant". Sophie Conway (Maggie Grace of "taken" fame) plays a snotty little self-centered disrespectful brat. Her character's mother was equally as snotty and self centered who is dating a disgustingly poor excuse for a man. Sophie's main love interest (there were more than one) was a one-dimensional dull wimp.

    In other words, it's difficult to like a movie when there's not one likable character in the bunch (other than Harry Pleasant).

    The plot (if you can call it that) was so slow and plodding, just making it to the end without falling asleep was a challenge.

    This was apparently a made-for-TV or a Direct-to-DVD production, not even worthy of its own hyper-link on Maggie Grace's Wikipedia filmography page. (Speaking of whom, Ms. Grace is a "one trick pony" and plays essentially the same character in any movie she is in. She did not disappoint this time around in that respect.)

    No spoiler alert here, other than this movie was a real stinker.
    7RosanaBotafogo

    Regular...

    Our beautiful and eternal Shannon, miss you... A good film, a little dragged and full of mysteries about the protagonist's hurts, and the past of the rest, but the outcome, despite the cliché, is worth it, the romance was a little weak, track beautiful and suffering sound...

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      • November 1, 2012 (United States)
    • Country of origin
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      • English
    • Also known as
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