

Flying Lessons
2010-02-04 · 104 min · ★ 5.6
With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.
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- Derek Magyar
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Cary ElwesSteven Jennings
Maggie GraceSophie Conway
Ian Anthony DaleLance
Jonathan TuckerBilly
Hal HolbrookHarry Pleasant
Nikki DeLoachMila
Christine LahtiCaroline Conway
Michael O'NeillChief Dobbs
Joanna CassidyTotty Kuspert
Rick GonzalezBenji
Maggie CastleShelly
Alyssa de BoisblancAnnie
Adam CagleyTeen Punk 1
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