Fearless
Overview
A middleaged architect with conventional views finds his perspective on life dramatically shifted when he is one of few survivors of a disastrous plane crash. Based on the novel by Rafael Yglesias. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actress--Rosie Perez.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Peter Weir - Director
William Beasley - Director
Jeff Bridges
Isabella Rossellini
Rosie Perez
Tom Hulce
John Turturro
John de Lancie
Daniel Cerny
Eve Roberts
Robin Pearson Rose
Debra Monk
Details
- Format: Blu-ray (Digital Theater System)
- Run Time: 122
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 883316675311
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: October 2013
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
San Francisco architect and family man Max Klein survives the plane crash that kills his best friend and undergoes a mystical transformation. Having overcome not only his fear of flying, but his fear of death, Max emerges from the crash in a blissed, beatific state -- and finds himself no longer able to engage in normal life. Convinced of his own messianic powers, Max pours all his energies into helping a young Hispanic mother who lost her baby in the crash overcome her grief and crippling guilt. In the process he grows further and further away from his devoted wife and young son until he risks losing them -- and himself -- all together.
Notes:
Color by Technicolor; shot with Panavision equipment.
Additional credits: Paul Babin (camera operator), Pacific Title (titles and opticals), Nina Saxon Film Design (title design), and Phil Judd (rerecording mixer).
"Mai Nozipo" composed by Dumisani Maraire, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Available to rent in the UK.
Reviews:
"...A serious, confidently made film...Well acted by the principals..." - 10/15/1993 New York Times, p.C12
"...Peter Weir in top form..." - Recommended - 04/01/1994 Premiere, p.143
"...It's refreshing to see a mainstream Hollywood film that so resolutely refuses to manipulate its audience, but rather invites us to watch and reflect and make up our own minds..." - 05/01/1994 Sight and Sound, p.41-2
"...Bridges is transportingly fine, and he manages throughout to convey, without exaggeration, an altered state of mind that rivets the viewer..." - 10/18/1993 Variety
"...It is unusual for being essentially philosophical and introspective, rather than romantic....FEARLESS is like a short story that shines a bright light, briefly, into a corner where you usually do not look..." - 10/15/1993 Chicago Sun-Times, p.45
"...Peter Weir's instant cult movie is more like his mystical Australian works....[Bridges gives] another routinely great performance..." - 04/08/1994 USA Today, p.3D
"[With] the most horrifying plane crash in movie history..." - 06/04/2004 Entertainment Weekly, p.35
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