A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 6 wins & 9 nominations total
John de Lancie
- Jeff Gordon
- (as John De Lancie)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe airplane crash site was recreated in a field in Central California in the Southern San Joaquin Valley and was exactly modeled on a crash that occurred outside Sioux City in Iowa in 1989. The "accident" was reported by several flights flying over the scene. The field was first planted with 85 acres of corn which was then bulldozed to recreate the gouge that a crashing plane would have made. The adjoining cotton field was also purchased to make the crash appear bigger. 140 extras were employed for the scene along with 40 members of the Kern County and Bakersfield Fire Department. One of the town's main roads was closed for a week, and the local electricity company was persuaded to knock down several pylons and snarl up half a mile of electric cable to create a scene of almost total devastation. The crash site took a total of 10 days to prepare, and included throwing 600 suitcases and their contents (all items purchased from local thrift stores) liberally around the site. In total, the recreation cost $2 million.
- GoofsCamera operator reflected in Klein's sunglasses when he's leaning against the car tire near the beginning.
- Quotes
Laura Klein: Why didn't you call and say you were alive?
Max Klein: I thought I was dead.
- ConnectionsEdited into Free Fall (1999)
- SoundtracksSostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
from Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs")
Written by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
David Zinman, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Performed by London Sinfonietta
Courtesy of Elektra Nonesuch
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
Letting go of fear doesn't work for those around us
*****SPOILERS***** Max Kline, Jeff Bridges, not only survived a deadly plane crash that cost the lives of some 200 passengers he also saved about a dozen people from that burning inferno. Max becomes a hero in the eyes of those that he saved as well as the news media. Max for some strange reason seemed to walk away from it all as if nothing happened which to many,including the FBI, seemed weird and strange. The airline sends a trauma expert Dr. Pearlman ,John Turturro, to examine Max as well as the other survivors to see if their all right and if not what treatment they would need.
The movie "Fearless" concentrates on two survivors and one wife of a survivor who are in some way connected to each other. Because of the tragedy. Max's friend and architect partner Jeff Gordon, John DeLancie, was killed in the crash and left a wife Nan, Deirdre O'Connell, with two little children. Jeff greedily switched the tickets that Max gave him for the flight for cheaper ones that didn't have life insurance to cover himself. Carla Rodrigo, Rosie Perez, who also survived the crash, thanks to Max, lost her little boy when he fell out of her hands and was killed. This made Carla fall into a deep depression by holding herself responsible for his death.
Max's change of life after the crash comes into conflict in dealing with the realities of both Carla and Nan as well as his wife Laura, Isabella Rosselini, in getting his life back to normal. Max soon develops a fearless attitude toward death and during the movie risks his life as if he were tempting death to see somehow that if he's really dead or not. Carla is the only one who seems to bring Max back to the real world with her depression over her sons death in the crash. That makes Max go out of his way to show her that she wasn't responsible. Having Carla her sit in his car one evening and having Carla hold a tool box, as if it were her baby boy, Max then crash the car full-force into a brick wall! This was to show her that she couldn't have held on to her child to save him from the plane crash: a bit insane but it worked in curing Carla of her severe guilt feelings.
The car crash also settled Max's not wanting to lie about Jeff's death. Jeff's lawyer Brillstein, Tom Hulce,wanted Max to lie about the circumstances of Jeff's death to get a bigger settlement. Now Max doesn't have to testify by showing that he became suicidal because of the plane crash and thus lost control of his mental faculties.
It was shown in the movie, after Max survived the plane crash, that everything that Max did he seemed to be guided by some invisible force. Like the one which had Max lead those survivors of the plane crash to safety. This unseen force made those who thought that Max was a bit strange and odd see that he was in some way a changed but better person because of it.
The end of the film seemed a bit confusing but thinking about everything else in the movie that lead up to it did somehow make sense. Max, with his wife present, picks up a strawberry from Nan's lawyers batch of gifts that he had and munches on it which seems to poison and kill him. It was explained early in the movie that Max had a deadly allergic reaction to strawberries since he was a child. With everyone thinking that he's dead Max miraculously comes back to life with his wife happily holding and kissing him.
We've seen earlier in the movie Max eating strawberries, again tempting death, with nothing happening to him! So why then should anything like him possibly dying from eating the strawberries happen to him now when it didn't happen before in the movie? Was it that strange force or was it Max himself in getting him and his wife Laura back together since their strained marriage, due to Max's relationship with Carla after the plane crash, which had him and his wife on the verge of separating and divorcing! Deep and interesting movie about how facing death in the present and surviving changes us for the better in facing life in the future.
The movie "Fearless" concentrates on two survivors and one wife of a survivor who are in some way connected to each other. Because of the tragedy. Max's friend and architect partner Jeff Gordon, John DeLancie, was killed in the crash and left a wife Nan, Deirdre O'Connell, with two little children. Jeff greedily switched the tickets that Max gave him for the flight for cheaper ones that didn't have life insurance to cover himself. Carla Rodrigo, Rosie Perez, who also survived the crash, thanks to Max, lost her little boy when he fell out of her hands and was killed. This made Carla fall into a deep depression by holding herself responsible for his death.
Max's change of life after the crash comes into conflict in dealing with the realities of both Carla and Nan as well as his wife Laura, Isabella Rosselini, in getting his life back to normal. Max soon develops a fearless attitude toward death and during the movie risks his life as if he were tempting death to see somehow that if he's really dead or not. Carla is the only one who seems to bring Max back to the real world with her depression over her sons death in the crash. That makes Max go out of his way to show her that she wasn't responsible. Having Carla her sit in his car one evening and having Carla hold a tool box, as if it were her baby boy, Max then crash the car full-force into a brick wall! This was to show her that she couldn't have held on to her child to save him from the plane crash: a bit insane but it worked in curing Carla of her severe guilt feelings.
The car crash also settled Max's not wanting to lie about Jeff's death. Jeff's lawyer Brillstein, Tom Hulce,wanted Max to lie about the circumstances of Jeff's death to get a bigger settlement. Now Max doesn't have to testify by showing that he became suicidal because of the plane crash and thus lost control of his mental faculties.
It was shown in the movie, after Max survived the plane crash, that everything that Max did he seemed to be guided by some invisible force. Like the one which had Max lead those survivors of the plane crash to safety. This unseen force made those who thought that Max was a bit strange and odd see that he was in some way a changed but better person because of it.
The end of the film seemed a bit confusing but thinking about everything else in the movie that lead up to it did somehow make sense. Max, with his wife present, picks up a strawberry from Nan's lawyers batch of gifts that he had and munches on it which seems to poison and kill him. It was explained early in the movie that Max had a deadly allergic reaction to strawberries since he was a child. With everyone thinking that he's dead Max miraculously comes back to life with his wife happily holding and kissing him.
We've seen earlier in the movie Max eating strawberries, again tempting death, with nothing happening to him! So why then should anything like him possibly dying from eating the strawberries happen to him now when it didn't happen before in the movie? Was it that strange force or was it Max himself in getting him and his wife Laura back together since their strained marriage, due to Max's relationship with Carla after the plane crash, which had him and his wife on the verge of separating and divorcing! Deep and interesting movie about how facing death in the present and surviving changes us for the better in facing life in the future.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,995,302
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $144,044
- Oct 17, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $6,995,302
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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