Final Approach (1991 film)

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Final Approach
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Directed by Eric Steven Stahl
Written byEric Steven Stahl
Gerald Laurence
Starring James Sikking
Hector Elizondo
Distributed by Trimark Pictures
Release date
  • July 24, 1991 (1991-07-24)(France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English
Budget$12.8 million [1]

Final Approach is a 1991 American thriller film.

The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane is featured in the film. Final Approach was the first film to be originally recorded, mixed and mastered in pure digital sound.

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Plot

Final Approach deals with the mental condition of amnesia when a stealth test pilot, Col. Jason Halsey (James Sikking), is involved in an air disaster. A psychiatrist Dr. Dio Gottlieb (Hector Elizondo) attempts to help Halsey to recover his memory, but his motives seem suspect.

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References

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