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I loved it. It was one of the best TV movies I have seen for awhile. It would have been a good mini series. The acting was good. How did the book end?
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Barb from cloudy San Francisco

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The book and movie are so completely different! So many more plots in the book. When I saw they made it into a movie, I was looking forward to it, but there were too many items they didn’t touch on:

Movie: the navy pilot refused to shoot down the plane and headed for the Nimitz.
Book: He told his superiors that he had fired his missiles (which he didn’t) and then was told to watch the plane land into the ocean. He lied and said he saw the plane crash. The pilot is running out of fuel and was told that search and rescue would find him. Search & rescue was never sent.

Movie: The weekend pilot lands the plane, and Ed Johnson just kind of hangs around.
Book: When the pilot landed, the Ed Johnson character went looking for him in order to kill him. He was stopped by another VP who helped the pilot land. This VP wasn’t in the movie at all.

Movie: The admiral goes along with the Commander until the pilot decides not to shoot the missile into the plane. Then the admiral says that he will issue a full report, stating what really happened.
Book: The admiral allows the navy pilot to die, and then the admiral walks off the ship and commits suicide.

Movie: The stewardess and passenger go off to their press conference.
Book: The passenger is much younger, and the flight attendant and pilot hook up romantically and (apparently) adopt the little girl.

Movie: The male passenger, whose two daughters were sucked out of the plane, sits with his wife until they land.
Book: The male passenger and his wife jump from the hole created by the missile. When the navy pilot sees them jump, he tells his superiors who think that the passengers are brain damaged. When the passenger is falling through space, he looks up and sees the navy plane, and realizes what has happened.




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The book sounds much more horrible than the movie.

Book: The passenger is much younger, and the flight attendant and pilot hook up romantically and (apparently) adopt the little girl.

LOL
Im glad I got spared that expected and yet unfitting cliche and exaggeration of it.

However, the entire plot of the three ppl being stuck in that meeting room was completely useless in the movie. Should have been cut out.

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