I just saw this movie this evening. A very good movie, very human, and extremely well done about a true story of a pilot who, in 2001, had a mechanical problem in his airplane and did an urgent landing by his own skill. He was an hero because nobody perish in the landing. It is a very dramatic movie with an extraordinary French Canadian actor, Michel Côté. The scene of the accident is very good.
Piché: The Landing of a Man
The terror and helplessness of flying in an airplane with no fuel while a crafty pilot makes a daring landing attempt is brought to life in the TVA Film Piché: The Landing of a Man.
To some Robert Piché is a great pilot hero, to others he is considered a drug smuggler who exacerbated improper maintenance leading to a heroic dead-stick landing with all the 300-plus on board walking away safely.
TVA Films presents an emotional look at Piché (Michel Côté as older Piché and Maxime Leflaguais as younger Piché) as he struggles with the fame that caused him to fall into bad habits and damage his family life. The film is mainly in French with some English lines. Piché was a womanizer who fathered three children from three different women. In order to break out of his poor lifestyle, he decided to fly drugs to the United States. where he was caught and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Nearly raped in a shower, Piché resorted to making a deal with the prison kingpin in order to survive his sentence. Mere days before 9/11, Piché was the main focus in Quebec for the media. The media was able to dig up Piché’s past causing Piché to seek professional help for the demons he left inside of him.
Côté does do a great job of portraying a man trying to do right by his family despite the past holding him down. At times the story slows down with Piché in therapy, but given time the story unfolds in exciting fashion leading to the airplane.
A very well crafted piece of suspense.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/pich-a-hero-with-a-past/article1379655/
