Main Cast: Devon Sawa, Amanda Detmer, Chad E. Donella, Ali Larter, Daniel Roebuck, Kristen Cloke
Release Year: 2000
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this teenage horror film, a young man avoids the hand of death, only to find that he can't get away from it so easily. On the way to Paris with his high-school French club, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a vivid premonition of the plane crashing and killing all its passengers. After Alex and some other passengers demand to be let off the flight, his premonition turns out to be true, and the jet explodes during takeoff. While the FBI is convinced that Alex was involved in some kind of foul play, the passengers who got off the flight are all dying in horrible ways, as if whoever determined that the passengers would perish is punishing those who cheated death. Final Destination marked the feature directorial debut of James Wong, a producer and director for the TV series The X Files. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Seann William Scott - Billy Hitchcock; Kerr Smith - Carter Horton; Roger Guenveur Smith - Agent Schreck; Tony Todd - Bludworth; Larry Gilman - Mr. Waggner; P. Lynn Johnson - Mrs. Waggner; Robert Wisden - Ken Browning; Mark Holden - Co-pilot; Nicole Robert - Ticket Clerk; Randy Stone - Flight Attendant; Barbara Tyson - Barbara Browning; Fred Keating - Howard Seigel; Brendan Fehr - George Waggner; Peter Atherton - Student Singer; Christine Chatelain - Blake Dreyer; Guy Fauchon - Hare Krishna; Lisa Caruk - Christa Marsh; John Hainsworth - Minister; Marrett Green - TV News Anchor; Forbes Angus - Larry Murnau; Kristina Matistic - Reporter
Credit
Willie Heslup - Art Director, Chris Bender - Associate Producer, Jori Woodman - Casting, John Papsidera - Casting, Coreen Mayrs - Casting, Shirley Papsidera - Casting, Shirley Walker - Conductor, Art Schaefer - Co-producer, Jori Woodman - Costume Designer, Jack Hardy - First Assistant Director, Brent Crowell - First Assistant Director, Roger Scott Russell - First Assistant Director, James Wong - Director, Thomas J. Wright - Second Unit Director, James Coblentz - Editor, Brian Witten - Executive Producer, Richard Brener - Executive Producer, Shirley Walker - Composer (Music Score), Ron Precious - Camera Operator, Casey Hotchkiss - Camera Operator, Peter McIennan - Camera Operator, Michael Wrinch - Camera Operator, John Willett - Production Designer, Robert McLachlan - Cinematographer, Mary Eilts - Production Manager, Craig Perry - Producer, Warren Zide - Producer, Glen Morgan - Producer, Anneke Van Oort - Set Designer, Geoff Wallace - Set Designer, John Alvarez - Set Designer, Terry Sonderhoff - Special Effects, Eric Batut - Sound Mixer, J.J. Makaro - Stunts Coordinator, Terry Sonderhoff - Special Effects Supervisor, Jeffrey Reddick - Screen Story, James Wong - Screenwriter, Glen Morgan - Screenwriter, Jeffrey Reddick - Screenwriter, Michael Wrinch - Second Unit Director Of Photography, Peter McIennan - Second Unit Camera, Michael Wrinch - Second Unit Camera, Ariel Velasco Shaw - Visual Effects Supervisor, Scott Wolf - Sound Effects Editor, Alan Rankin - Sound Effects Editor, Paul Timothy Carden - Sound Effects Editor, Hector Gika - Sound Effects Editor, Scott Sanders - Sound Effects Editor, Tom Ozanich - Sound Effects Editor, Peter Zinda - Sound Effects Editor, Carla Fry - Executive in Charge of Production, Dana Belcastro - Executive in Charge of Production, Flesh & Fantasy Inc. - Animatronic Effects, John Tanimoto - Digital Effects, Paul Broucek - Executive Music Producer, Thomas Milano - Music Editor, Kristopher Carter - Musical Performer, Jay Vinitsky - Post Production Supervisor, Kasandra Greene Griebel - Production Coordinator, Flesh & Fantasy Inc. - Prosthetic Makeup Effects, Brad Sherman - Re-Recording Mixer, Melissa Hoffman - Re-Recording Mixer, Lara P. Fox - Script Supervisor, Michael Magnusson - Second Assistant Director, Lydia Stante - Second Assistant Director, Velma Roberts - Second Assistant Director, Marianne Szabo - Second Assistant Director, Scott Martin Gershin - Supervising Sound Editor, Dave McMoyler - Supervising Sound Editor, Ariel Velasco Shaw - Visual Effects Producer, Michelle Pazer - ADR Editor, Ron Bedrosian - ADR Mixer, Brian Basham - ADR Recordist, William M. S. Burns - Assistant Location Manager, Heike Brandstatter - Casting Assistant, Christopher T. Welch - Dialogue Editor, Constance A. Kazmar - Dialogue Editor, Dan Hegeman - Dialogue Editor, Dino R. Dimuro - Foley Editor, Phil Hess - Foley Editor, Thom Mcintyre - Key Hairstylist, Paul Prokop - Production Controller, Marc Messenger - Storyboard Artist, Emily Glatter - Supervising Production Coordinator, Mary Lou Storey - Set Decorator, Nerses Gezalyan - Foley Mixer, Greg Zimmerman - Foley Recordist, Steve Wright - Pilot, Andrew Verhoeven - Special Effects Technician, Heather Morrison - Visual Effects Editor
(DOD, NATO) In naval control of shipping, the final destination of a convoy or of an individual ship (whether in convoy or independent) irrespective of whether or not routing instructions have been issued.
Final Destination is a 2000supernaturalthriller, about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths. Soon after their escape, they begin dying one-by-one in mysterious freak accidents.[1] The script was originally written by Jeffrey Reddick as a spec script for the X-Files. Director James Wong worked as a writer, producer and director on that series. The film is distributed by New Line Cinema. The DVD was released on September 26, 2000.[2] The film was the first in the Final Destination series, which has since produced three sequels and a series of books.
Alex Browning (portrayed by Devon Sawa) is going on a high school graduation trip to Paris with his fellow peers. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that his flight explodes in mid-air, killing everybody. Alex then wakes up, assuming the events to be just a dream. However, as events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, Alex panics and attempts to stop the flight. The resulting commotion leads to a handful of passengers being left behind. As they witness the explosion from the terminal, they realize that what Alex witnessed wasn’t just a dream. Soon after, the survivors of the flight begin dying in a chain of bizarre accidents, in the same order they would have died on the plane.
Characters
Alexander Chance "Alex" Browning (played by Devon Sawa): Alex is a student and the main character. He has the premonition that Flight 180 will explode, leading to a handful of passengers either being thrown off the plane or voluntarily leaving.
Clear Rivers (played by Ali Larter): Clear is a fellow classmate of Alex's who tries to help him defeat death. Despite not knowing Alex and the others too well, she leaves the plane to follow him, having taken his premonition seriously.
Carter Horton (played by Kerr Smith): Carter is an athlete who deeply resents Alex. He starts a fight with Alex, having become annoyed with him for claiming the plane will explode. This leads to him being forced to exit the plane.
Agent Schreck (played by Roger Guenveur Smith): Agent Schreck is an FBI agent who thinks it's Alex's fault that Flight 180 exploded.
Agent Weine (played by Daniel Roebuck): Agent Weine is an FBI agent who thinks it's Alex's fault that Flight 180 exploded.
William "Billy" Hitchcock (played by Seann William Scott): The jester of the group. He is the only character who is neither forced out of the plane, nor chooses to leave himself, but rather is unable to make his way past those who are being thrown out, and ends up missing the flight purely by accident.
Ms. Valerie Lewton (played by Kristen Cloke): Ms. Lewton is one of the teachers supervising the trip to Paris. She volunteers to stay behind with the students forced off Flight 180.
Terry Chaney (played by Amanda Detmer): Carter's girlfriend. She takes his side when he fights Alex on the plane, and is thrown out along with them.
Tod Waggner (played by Chad Donella): Alex's best friend who is the first victim of death's design. He left the plane, under the suggestion of his brother George, to make sure Alex had calmed down.
William Bludworth (played by Tony Todd): William Bludworth is a man who knows about death more than anyone else. He tells Alex and Clear that death is a living force that will not stop until all of its' would be victims are conquered.
Rating
Final Destination received an R rating in the United States for violence and terror, and for language. In the United Kingdom, it received a 15 rating. In Ireland, it received an 18 for violence, horror, and language.[5]
