April 16, 2023

On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)

1 hour 7 minutes

When God is literally your co-pilot, anything is possible. This is the lesson that 56-year-old pharmacist and amateur pilot Doug White learned in 2009 when he, his wife, and two daughters were trapped in an airborne private plane en route to Louisiana after their pilot died soon after takeoff. Through a combination of Doug's very limited training, the resourcefulness of air traffic control operators who talked him through landing the plane, and the additional guidance of a flight instructor named Kari Sorenson who was patched into the call remotely, the Whites were saved, and they attribute their miraculous survival to divine intervention. This genuinely remarkable event in aviation history lasted all of twenty minutes in real life. The writer/director/producer of ON A WING AND A PRAYER, Sean McNamara (Even Stevens, That's So Raven), managed to stretch this incident into an hour and 45 minute film by editorializing on the Whites' Christian values as they win barbecue contests, feed the homeless, and work their way through petty family squabbles before their near death experience brings them together once again. A star-studded cast (Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Jesse Metcalfe) and some bizarre additions to the story, including a deadly peanut allergy and an accidental flight misdirection into a tropical storm, ensure that ON A WING AND A PRAYER is one of the more tightly constructed and entertaining Christian blockbusters of recent years. Many recent Christian genre films have been weighted down with boring descents into complicated conservative conspiracy theories, or bulky runtimes, but ON A WING AND A PRAYER keeps the drama light and soars above the competition.

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