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Two women fly on the KLM flight that wins the 1953 Air Race from London to New Zealand.
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Rating: R (Some Graphic Nudity|A Strong Sex Scene)
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Ben Sombogaart
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Producer: Hanneke Niens, Anton Smit
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Writer: Marieke van der Pol
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $497.3K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Music Box Films
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Production Co: IDTV, New Holland Pictures, Samsa Film
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I was very taken in by this nice Dutch drama. It was really well done. A beautiful story with a wonderful cast. The characters are well defined, and interesting. The scenery is beautiful, as well. Nice movie!
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This was little more than a melodramatic romance novel brought to film, but one that was well told and interestingly presented. The characters were well drawn and their back stories satisfactorily filled in. The three pairs of actors portraying the women were excellently matched, the younger women easily discernible in the older. This viewer found the dark haired young Esther, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy to be particularly enchanting and the New Zealand scenery to be breathtakingly beautiful. The story was told in flashbacks as the three older women prepared for a funeral and revolved around the flight that brought them together and the events after they had emigrated that drove them apart. This viewer was surprised at how completely he was drawn in, even shedding a tear or two at the sweet way in which the film ended. While this will not alter the course of human events, it will nevertheless entertain.
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In 2008, Frank(Rutger Hauer) has a fatal heart attack after inspecting his vineyards. In 1953, Frank(Waldemar Torenstra) is a passenger on a flight of emigres to Christchurch, New Zealand that is also competing in an air race. Esther(Anna Drijver), one of the passengers and a fashion designer, asks Ada(Karina Smulders) to model a wedding dress, complimenting her on her figure. That might have something to do with her being pregnant, having already been married to Derk(Micha Hulshof) by proxy. Nerves and perhaps turbulence make Ada think about bolting at a refueling stop but Frank talks her back onto the plane, convincing her that life in New Zealand could not be any worse than Karachi. By comparison, Marjorie(Elise Schaap) is happy with her new prospects with Hans(Mattijn Hartemink) waiting for her on the ground. "Bride Flight" has some good performances, makes excellent use of the beautiful New Zealand scenery and has one classic scene where Ada is forced to ride in the back of a truck for several hours while her friends take another road in life. But it really only manages to scratch the surface in providing a routine treatment of a potentially fascinating piece of history. Instead, of exploring the emigres adjusting to their new country(a couple of whom are escaping tragic pasts), it only really comes around to exploring identity(notice that many of the people at Frank's funeral are Maori which shows how well he may have been accepted) after a ten year jump in a question of paternity that is admittedly nowhere near as all-consuming as the average episode of "Brothers & Sisters."
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I must admit that Dutch Cinema has improved during these last years, and with Bride Flight they proved it again.It was a beautiful movie that showed the life of 4 people, and the connections between them since they met on a plane for a new start in New Zealand. It was a romantic drama that took beyond just the romance. It was more the about the relationships these four people had with each other,the choices they made and the regrets and satisfactions that came from those choices after they lived out their lives and reached old age. I am not such a fan of chick flick love stories, but Bride Flight was more about life in general and the outcomes from the choices which made it more interesting to me. The four lead characters were absolutely fantastic. Their acting was superb and each one of them made me fall in love with them in their own unique way. The ending was emotionally touching as the three women look back at the man that changed all their lives in a way they never thought possible.
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