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Final Destination
No accidents. No coincidences. No escapes. You can't cheat death.
( Horror )


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MPAA Rating:
R
[language]

US Runtime: 98 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Mar 17, 2000   [USA]
 
Director: James Wong
 
Writers: Glen Morgan   [Screenplay]
Jeffrey Reddick   [Screenplay]
Jeffrey Reddick   [Story]
James Wong   [Screenplay]
 
Producers: Chris Bender   [Associate Producer]
Richard Brener   [Executive Producer]
Glen Morgan   [Producer]
Craig Perry   [Producer]
Art Schaefer   [Co-Producer]
Brian Witten   [Executive Producer]
Warren Zide   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: Robert McLachlan
 
Edited by: James Coblentz
 
Music Composed by Adam Hamilton
Shirley Walker
 
Production Design: John Willett
 
Costume Design: Jori Woodman
 
Casting by John Papsidera
Lisa Ratke
 
Production Companys: Hard Eight Pictures
New Line Cinema   (US)
Zide-Perry Productions   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Devon Sawa
Alex Browning
Ali Larter
Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith
Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke
Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck
Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith
Agent Schreck
Chad Donella
Tod Waggner
Seann William Scott
Billy Hitchcock
Tony Todd
Bludworth
Amanda Detmer
Terry Chaney
 
Brendan Fehr
George Waggner
Forbes Angus
Larry Murnau
Lisa Marie Caruk
Christa Marsh
Christine Chatelain
Blake Dreyer
Barbara Tyson
Barbara Browning
Robert Wisden
Ken Browning
P. Lynn Johnson
Mrs. Waggner
Larry Gilman
Mr. Waggner
Guy Fauchon
Hare Krishna
Randy Stone
Flight Attendant
 
 

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Special Effects Department:

Cinema Production Services Inc.
miniature effects
Flesh and Fantasy Inc.
special makeup effects / prosthetics and animatronic effects
 
Pixel Magic
digital visual effects and 3D animation
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$23,000,000
Revenue:
$112,880,294
Color Info:
Color (DeLuxe)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • Carter: As far as I know, this shit can circle around and get us all again. But for right now, I'm the safest fucker in the world, because you're still NEXT.
     
  • Billy Hitchcock: There they go, here we stay. [As he watches the plane take off and then explode]
     
  • Bludworth: There are no accidents, no coincidences, and no escapes.
     
  • Tod Waggner: We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we believe it's in a far and distant future. Not to have any connections with the day already began, or that death could arrive this same afternoon...
     
  • Billy Hitchcock: Carter, you dick!
     

Trivia:

  • In every death, "Rocky Mountain High" plays. It's on the intercom in the airport, on Tod's radio, the teacher puts on John Denver's Greatest Hits, even a French Guy who looks like John Denver plays the song at the end of the movie in Paris.
     
  • Before his death Tod's name is torn from the magazine, Tod is also the German word for death.
     
  • As well as footage, Final Destination borrows in other ways from the crash of TWA Flight 800. The July 17th, 1996 flight was also carrying a high school French club, it exploded suddenly and was investigated for a possible deliberate act causing the accident - first a bomb, then a surface to air missile. As with the movie, it was ultimately decided that the crash was a result of mechanical failure (explosion in the central fuel tank), although the FBI investigation is still open.
     
  • Much of the news footage shown is actual footage from the July 1996 explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 off East Moriches, Long Island, New York.
     
  • During the opening credits, all of the deaths in the movie are foreshadowed. There is a hanging doll, a guillotine, and a picture of a knife in someone's chest.
     

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