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.
Acting
Hal Holbrook's devastating Alzheimer's portrait
Writing
The parallel between forgetting and running away
Direction
Derek Magyar's confident debut restraint
Director
Derek Magyar
Cary Elwes
Steven Jennings
Maggie Grace
Sophie Conway
Ian Anthony Dale
Lance
Jonathan Tucker
Billy
Hal Holbrook
Harry Pleasant
Nikki DeLoach
Mila
Christine Lahti
Caroline Conway
Michael O'Neill
Chief Dobbs
Joanna Cassidy
Totty Kuspert
Rick Gonzalez
Benji
Maggie Castle
Shelly
Alyssa de Boisblanc
Annie
Adam Cagley
Teen Punk 1
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Derek Magyar was primarily known as an actor (Train) before this, his feature debut. The film barely registered theatrically but became a Hal Holbrook appreciator's secret handshake.
The 'flying' title works double-duty: Sophie's literal fear of planes mirrors her emotional flight from connection. Maggie Grace was fresh off Lost and desperately trying to prove she could carry indie drama.
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