Final Destination (2000)

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

Director:

James Wong

Writers:

Glen Morgan (screenplay), James Wong (screenplay)

Stars:

Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Devon Sawa	...	Alex Browning
Ali Larter	...	Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith	...	Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke	...	Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck	...	Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith	...	Agent Schreck
Chad Donella	...	Tod Waggner (as Chad E. Donella)
Seann William Scott	...	Billy Hitchcock
Tony Todd	...	Bludworth
Amanda Detmer	...	Terry Chaney
Brendan Fehr	...	George Waggner
Forbes Angus	...	Larry Murnau
Lisa Marie Caruk	...	Christa Marsh
Christine Chatelain	...	Blake Dreyer
Barbara Tyson	...	Barbara Browning

Storyline

Alex is boarding his plane to France on a school trip, when he suddenly gets a premonition that the plane will explode. When Alex and a group of students are thrown off the plane, to their horror, the plane does in fact explode. Alex must now work out Death's plan, as each of the surviving students falls victim. Whilst preventing the worst from happening, Alex must also dodge the FBI, which believes Alex caused the explosion.

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Plot Keywords:

death | premonition | teenager | explosion | dead teenager | 

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Taglines:

Intervention comes at a price.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and terror, and for language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

Canada USA

Language:

English French

Release Date:

17 March 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Flight 180

Filming Locations:

4688 Connaught Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$23,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,015,822 (USA) (17 March 2000)

Gross:

$53,302,314 (USA) (11 August 2000)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Much of the news footage shown is actual footage from the July 1996 explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 off East Moriches, Long Island, New York.

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Goofs

(at around 15 mins) Alex dreamt that there was a decompression and part of the plane's fuselage broke off. This would neither be related to the scavenger fuel pump explosion nor would it cause such an explosion.

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Quotes

[With cups of coffee, Alex and Clear sit down at a street-side Espresso-shop corner table]
Alex Browning: The mortician said that Death has a design. Okay. I'm talking about omens. How do we know that just by sitting here - by, by sipping this coffee, or breathing the air, or even crossing the intersection - that we haven't even started in motion the events that will some day lead to our death: forty years from now, ten years from now, tomorrow. We don't. Unless we open ourselves up...
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Crazy Credits

The opening credits are done in a ghosting format.

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Connections

Referenced in Atop the Fourth Wall: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (2013)

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Soundtracks

And When I Die
Written by Laura Nyro
Performed and produced by Joe 90
Mixed by Jim Wirt
Courtesy of E Pluribus Unum Recordings

User Reviews

original and scary

Inventive, effectively eerie spine-chiller is a step up in the teen horror genre. High schooler Sawa has a horrific vision of his plane crashing just moments before its departure on a class field trip. He and several others exit the plane only to discover that it does in fact crash, but things take a shocking turn when the remaining survivors begin to die in the most mysterious ways. Story is intriguing, the suspense flows well throughout, and there are enough violent deaths to satisfy the target audience. The ending is a bit of a disappointment and should have been planned out better, but overall this is one of the better films of the genre. ***