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* UncertainDoom: Since not all of the survivors are among the people who Max gets out of the plane and through the cornfield, and not every survivor attends the group meeting, it is unclear whether some of the people from the plane flashbacks (the pilots, the cabin stewardess, a woman and her daughter, a couple praying right before the crash, etc.) survive.
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* UncertainDoom: Since not all of the survivors are among the people who Max gets out of the plane and through the cornfield, and not every survivor attends the group meeting, it is unclear whether some of the many people from the plane flashbacks flashbacs (the pilots, the cabin stewardess, a woman and her daughter, a couple praying right before the crash, etc.) survive.survive, although the original book says the entire crew survived due to the airline giving them higher quality seatbelts than the passengers.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's a happy ending for Max, and it's implied that Carla is on the mend as well, but we never find out what became of many of the traumatized lesser characters, such as Byron, the boy who Max rescued and who was implied to have developed a stronger bond with Max than with his own father.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's a happy ending for Max, and it's implied that Carla is on the mend as well, but we never find out what became of many of the traumatized lesser characters, such as Byron, the boy who Max rescued and who was implied to have developed a stronger bond with Max than with his own father.father (although in the book, Max wrecks him their bond in what he sees as CruelToBeKind act).
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** Zigzagged in the case of Max. While he believes that surviving the crash unscathed was the best thing that ever happened to him, it's obvious that his subsequent behavior is abnormal and probably just as much driven by survivor guilt as the others, even if Max doesn't acknowledge it.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's a happy ending for Max, and it's implied that Carla is on the mend as well, but we never find out what became of many of the traumatized lesser characters, such as Byron, the boy who Max rescued and who was implied to have developed a stronger bond with Max than with his own father.
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* AmoralAttorney: Tom Hulce plays a lawyer who does everything he can to ensure that the plane crash victims get every dollar coming to them, so he can get every dollar coming to ''him.'' He's not above coaching his clients to remember the worst details about the crash, or using a dead child to increase the settlement with the airline.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Max becomes crass and irresponsible after surviving the plane crash. However, he clearly has compassion for the other survivors, and during the crash itself he saved several people's lives. The problem is, his sense of responsibility towards the fellow passengers causes him to neglect his own family.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The flashbacks to the crash focus on Max, but several lines also make it clear that the pilot (who is only briefly seen and whose fate is unclear) is working hard to land the plane intact during those scenes. Max himself thinks that there wouldn't have been anyone for him to save if the pilot had done a poorer job.
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* UncertainDoom: Since not all of the survivors are among the people who Max gets out of the plane and through the cornfield, and not every survivor attends the group meeting, it is unclear whether some of the people from the plane flashbacks (the pilots, the cabin stewardess, a woman and her daughter, a couple praying right before the crash, etc.) survive.
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* LeftHanging: Several plot threads are brought up during a support group meeting of survivors. A woman tries to learn how her son died, another woman who lost several relatives in the crash wanting to meet Max to thank him for saving the rest of the family, and the stewardess who gave Carla wrong advice about how to protect her son before the crash wants to talk to her but is reluctant to admit her mistake. None of these are resolved in the film.
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No relation to the 2006 Creator/JetLi movie of the same name.
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No relation to the 2006 Creator/JetLi [[Film/Fearless2006 movie of the same name.name]].
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Max Klein (Creator/JeffBridges) and his business partner are on a flight from San Francisco to Houston when the plane suffers a catastrophic hydraulic failure and crashes in a cornfield near Bakersfield, CA. Many passengers die in the fiery wreck, including an infant belonging to Carla Rodrigo (Creator/RosiePerez). In the midst of the chaotic aftermath and rescue operation, Max calmly hails a cab and drives away, to be found a day later by FBI agents investigating his disappearance. They return him home to his wife, Laura (Isabella Rossellini) and son Jonah, who are overjoyed to learn that he survived.
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Max Klein (Creator/JeffBridges) and his business partner are on a flight from San Francisco to Houston when the plane suffers a catastrophic hydraulic failure and crashes in a cornfield near Bakersfield, CA. Many passengers die in the fiery wreck, including an infant belonging to Carla Rodrigo (Creator/RosiePerez). In the midst of the chaotic aftermath and rescue operation, Max calmly hails a cab and drives away, to be found a day later by FBI agents investigating his disappearance. They return him home to his wife, Laura (Isabella Rossellini) (Creator/IsabellaRossellini) and son Jonah, who are overjoyed to learn that he survived.
