Quicksand: nature's rude way of saying 'no refunds on your flight.'
An ill-fated flight ends in the Western Desert where it crash-fives into quicksand as the passengers try to control their temper. The movie provides archetypes as they start reflecting on their lives in crisis, some of them being hopeless, and some of them being hopeless romantics.
Acting
Yassin and Ramzy selling every grain of sand drama.
Practical Effects
Actual quicksand? Probably just very committed actors.
Production
Desert location shooting that looks genuinely miserable.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peak 1980s Egyptian cinema loved trapping social commentary in single locations; this desert is basically a talk show set with worse ventilation.
Mahmoud Yassin was Egypt's biggest star at the time; getting him to stand in fake quicksand was probably half the budget.
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