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Home is a 2015 American animated science fiction comedy film [4] produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.Loosely based on Adam Rex's 2007 children's book The True Meaning of Smekday, the film was directed by Tim Johnson from a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, and stars the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Jones.
Smek for President!, a sequel billed as "Book Two of the Smek Smeries ", was released by Disney Hyperion on February 10, 2015, along with an audiobook edition read by Bahni Turpin. [2] The novel follows Tip and J.Lo on an impromptu summer vacation to New Boovworld, where J.Lo seeks a pardon from Captain Smek, but instead finds himself a pawn in ...
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain in a different light.
We Are Marshall is a 2006 American biographical sports drama film directed by McG.It depicts the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people: 37 players of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic director, 25 boosters, and the airplane crew of five.
A subgenre, the "plane crash survival movie", involves characters placed in a dangerous environment by an initial airplane crash. [5] Airplane crashes have been described as "the easy and obvious device" for dramatically incorporating an airplane into the plot of a film, [ 6 ] and as "a Hollywood staple", [ 1 ] with various levels of praise or ...
Former captain Dan Roman, the flight's veteran first officer, known for his habit of whistling, is haunted by an air crash that killed his wife and son and left him with a permanent limp. The captain, John Sullivan, suffers from a secret fear of responsibility after logging thousands of hours looking after the lives of passengers and aircrew.
All 75 people on board died, including 37 members of the football team, five coaches, the team trainer and team photographer. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. The tragedy was depicted in the movie We Are Marshall (2006) and the documentary film Marshall University: Ashes to Glory (2000).