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Honor Flight

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Honor Flight
  • Genre: Documentary, War
  • Release Date: 2012-12-07 Limited
  • Running Time: 88 min.
  • Director: Dan Hayes
  • Cast: Harvey Kurz, Joe Demler, Joe Dean, Renee Riddle, Charlie Sykes, Steve Deutsch, Julian Plaster, Orville Lemke, Ann Rasmusson, Mark Grams
  • Producer: Clay Broga
  • Distributor: Independent Pictures
  • Official Site: Honor Flight Official Site

Greatest Generation stoicism meets gushing contemporary sentiment in Honor Flight, Dan Hayes' documentary about the Wisconsin chapter of the eponymous program, which flies World War Two veterans out to see their monument in Washington D.C. Honor Flight's movers and shakers recount the genesis of the idea, with their fundraising necessarily conducted against the backdrop of an emptying hourglass, as we're informed that 900 WW2 vets nationally pass away every day. Honor Flight is, however, already a success story by the time Hayes is on hand to shoot the 3rd 747 flight, which robs his film of any traditional suspense or narrative contour. Instead, after introducing several of the selected veterans and their stories before takeoff, we follow them from the monument to Arlington National Cemetery to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to their homecoming fanfare, all along the way being deluged with tears. It is hard to recall another film in which more than half of the interviews are interrupted by choking up, a fact that does not escape notice: "Are we going into another tearjerking?" asks one subject, before complying. "When you're doing a story about old people you can afford to be sentimental," Howard Hawks said, and Honor Flight takes full license, promoting an undeniably decent and worthy cause through sometimes invasive emotional prying.

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