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Final Destination
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.
2000 · Directed by James Wong · 98 min · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
No accidents. No coincidences. No escapes. You can't cheat death.
Plot
High school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing 747-200B, with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris from John F. Kennedy Airport. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everybody on board. When the events from his vision begin to occur in reality, he panics until a fight breaks out between him and student Carter Horton, resulting in both of them being removed from the plane, along with Alex's best friend Tod Waggner, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney, teacher Valerie Lewton, and students Billy Hitchcock and Clear Rivers. None of them except Clear believe Alex about his vision until the plane explodes shortly after take-off. Afterwards, the survivors are interrogated by two FBI agents, Weine and Schreck, who are both suspicious of Alex.
After a memorial service, Tod slips on a puddle of water from the toilet and falls into the bathtub while a clothes line wraps around his neck, strangling him to death. While his death is ruled a suicide, Alex sneaks into the funeral home to examine Tod's corpse, where mortician William Bludworth reveals that the survivors who cheated death have disrupted Death's plan and that Death is now claiming the lives of those who were meant to die in the accident. Alex and Clear meet the other survivors at a café, where a heated argument breaks out over what is happening. A frustrated Terry leaves and is suddenly run over by a speeding bus as she steps into the street.
After watching a news report on the cause of the explosion, Alex concludes that Death is reclaiming the survivors in the order they would have died in the disaster. Nonetheless, he is too late to save Ms. Lewton, who is mortally wounded in a chain-reaction accident in her kitchen before a fire causes her house to explode. The remaining survivors reunite while driving through town as Alex explains the situation. Still skeptical of Alex's theory, Carter stops his car at a train crossing to prove it wrong. Alex, Clear, and Billy manage to escape, but Carter, realizing his impending fate, is still trapped in his car. Alex manages to save him just before the car is smashed by an oncoming train that knocks a piece of shrapnel from the wreckage into the air, decapitating Billy. Alex deduces that because he intervened in Carter's death, it skipped to the next person in the sequence.
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Crew
- Screenplay: James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick, Glen Morgan
- Cinematography: Robert McLachlan
- Edited by: James Coblentz
- Music: Shirley Walker, Adam Hamilton
- Production design: John Willett
- Produced by: Craig Perry, Warren Zide, Glen Morgan
Cast
- Devon Sawa as Alex Browning
- Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
- Kerr Smith as Carter Horton
- Kristen Cloke as Valerie Lewton
- Daniel Roebuck as Agent Weine
- Roger Guenveur Smith as Agent Schreck
- Chad Donella as Tod Waggner
- Seann William Scott as Billy Hitchcock
- Tony Todd as Bludworth
- Amanda Detmer as Terry Chaney
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: Zide-Perry Productions, New Line Cinema
- Budget: $23,000,000
- Box office: $112,880,294
- Themes: airport, time travel, omen, premonition, airplane accident, airplane crash, corpse, death, macabre, near-death experience
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