PG | 1 h 42 min | Drama | 2023
It’s Easter in 2009, and 56-year-old pharmacist Doug White (Dennis Quaid), wife Terri (Heather Graham), and their teenage daughters are returning in a small, private plane to their Louisiana home, after mourning the sudden death of Doug’s older brother Jeff in Florida.
Ten minutes in, their pilot dies of a heart attack—leaving flying-novice Doug at the controls with his family’s fate, literally, in his hands. Air Traffic Control’s (ATC) Dan Favio (Rocky Myers) rings ace-pilot Kari Sorenson (Jesse Metcalfe) in Connecticut to talk Doug through flying and landing maneuvers.
Doug White (Dennis Quaid) discovers that the pilot Joe Cabuk (Wilbur Fitzgerald) has had a fatal heart attack, in “On a Wing and a Prayer.” (MovieStillsDB)
In entertainment value, Sean McNamara’s film isn’t meant to rival a mid-air hijack or heist thriller or to be an accurate biopic. Rather, it’s a moralistic family drama that uses Doug’s real-life story to explore loss, grief, faith in God, and prayer….