Fearless
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Short description
Max Klein survives a plane crash that kills many of the passengers, including his best friend. Afterward he becomes convinced that he cannot die, and this belief leads him to behave in ways that alarm the people around him. He withdraws from his wife, Laura, and rejects the efforts of a psychiatrist, Dr. Bill Perlman, to reach him. Following the psychiatrist's suggestion, Max instead seeks out Carla Rodrigo, another survivor of the same crash who lost her young son in it and blames herself for his death. The bond that forms between the two unsettles Max's marriage.
Peter Weir directed the film, the tenth of the thirteen features he has directed and the one that followed Green Card and preceded The Truman Show. Rafael Yglesias wrote the screenplay, and Paula Weinstein and Mark Rosenberg produced it for Warner Bros. Pictures and Spring Creek Pictures. Jeff Bridges plays Max, with Isabella Rossellini as Laura, Rosie Perez as Carla, Tom Hulce as Brillstein, John Turturro as Dr. Bill Perlman and Benicio del Toro as Manny Rodrigo among a credited cast of eighty-two.
Made for about 20 million dollars, the film returned roughly 7 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from around 26,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.9 out of 10 from far fewer votes. A critics' rating of 7.9 out of 10 across 44 reviews places it above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- To get into the role of the protagonist who had survived a catastrophe, Jeff Bridges spent a lot of time talking to his friend Gary Busey, who had been in a motorcycle accident shortly before filming and had been in a coma for several days.
- The film's director, Peter Weir, suffered from a fear of flying before filming the movie.
- The airplane crash site was recreated on a field in central California, precisely replicating the Iowa crash site from 1989. Initially, the field was planted with corn, then plowed up by a bulldozer, and a trench was created to simulate the one left by the fallen aircraft. 140 extras and 40 members of the Kern County Fire Department participated in filming the scene. One of the main roads nearby was closed for a week, and the local power company was persuaded to take down several poles and tangle the wires to create the illusion of complete devastation. Preparing the crash site took 10 days, and 600 suitcases with all their contents were scattered haphazardly around it (all of which was specially purchased from local thrift stores). Overall, recreating the crash site cost $2 million.
- The scene with the flight attendant instructing Rosie Perez’s character to take the baby because it was required by regulations, and the baby dies, describes a real event that occurred on board the crashed plane. A flight attendant instructed one passenger to put the baby on the floor next to her (which at that time was standard procedure according to safety regulations). The baby rolled somewhere under the seats and died. The passenger blamed the flight attendant for this, and she spent the rest of her days fighting to change safety regulations and draw public attention to the problem of flight safety.
- The film partially recreates events that occurred in 1989 in Iowa with United Airlines flight 232. However, unlike the film, the actual crash involved a DC-10, not a Boeing.
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