In 1918, pilot Edgar Anscombe (Christopher Reeve) nearly dies in a training accident which kills his student. It's 1928. Edgar is a bitter mail plane pilot. Rebellious Tillie Hansen (Rosanna Arquette) is being sent to live with her aunt by her controlling father. She's not happy. Edgar's not happy either to have a passenger.
This was widely panned. I wanted to see what's the issue here. Early on, Rosanna Arquette is pushing too hard. She is so bratty to the point of being annoying. Then I noticed that non of the women are written well. Evelyn is super annoying and Rose is a problem in the romantic structure. Quite frankly, these men need to be alone. They are more compelling as loners. The movie needs to write out the two ladies back home. This is much better as a survival movie. While it wants to ship Edgar and Tillie in its bones, it can't and won't. It does not help that he keeps calling her Kid. Either make Tillie an actual kid or make this an actual romance. It achieves nothing by not being either. The melodrama gets to be too much. The survival against the wolf pack is plenty enough. My final take is that this is not horrible but terribly flawed.
This was widely panned. I wanted to see what's the issue here. Early on, Rosanna Arquette is pushing too hard. She is so bratty to the point of being annoying. Then I noticed that non of the women are written well. Evelyn is super annoying and Rose is a problem in the romantic structure. Quite frankly, these men need to be alone. They are more compelling as loners. The movie needs to write out the two ladies back home. This is much better as a survival movie. While it wants to ship Edgar and Tillie in its bones, it can't and won't. It does not help that he keeps calling her Kid. Either make Tillie an actual kid or make this an actual romance. It achieves nothing by not being either. The melodrama gets to be too much. The survival against the wolf pack is plenty enough. My final take is that this is not horrible but terribly flawed.