Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 American survival drama film and a remake of a 1965 film of the same name, both based on the 1964 novel "The Flight of the Phoenix", by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi. "Flight of the Phoenix" opened in the U.S. on December 17, 2004. The film was a box-office failure, and received generally mixed reviews;
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains of America Awards. It had its theatrical premiere on October 22 in New York. The film appeared on some critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Shawn Levy of "The Oregonian" named it the 5th best film of 2008, and Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" named it the 8th best film of 2008 (in a six-way tie). Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains is a 2007 documentary film which tells the story of a rugby team from Uruguay who