A Wing and a Prayer

1998

Action / Drama / Thriller

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 199 199

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Plot summary

An air-traffic controller faces the challenge of her career when she is forced to guide a disabled airplane to safety, unaware that her husband is aboard.

Director

Paul Wendkos Photo
Paul Wendkos

Top cast

Leon Russom Photo
Leon Russom as Vernon Spencer
Jim Metzler Photo
Jim Metzler as Will
Bill Mondy Photo
Bill Mondy as Coach Passenger
Robert Curtis Brown Photo
Robert Curtis Brown as Deparle
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805.96 MB
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24 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.46 GB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 4 / 10

Fairly generic stuff...

Without ever having heard about this 1998 thriller titled "A Wing and a Prayer", as I stumbled upon it by sheer luck here in 2025, of course I opted to give the movie a fair chance.Writers Michael Ahnemann and Stephen Harrigan put together a fair enough script. It was a pretty straightforward, but essentially came off as a bit bland and generic.Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with Claudia Christian and Jeff Yagher. The acting performances in the movie were fair.Visually, the movie was okay, but you're not in for a grand spectacle of special effects.Watchable, for sure, but it wasn't an outstanding movie, nor a particularly memorable one. And it is hardly a movie that warrants more than a single viewing.My rating of "A Wing and a Prayer" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Reviewed by Theo Robertson 4 / 10

Anachronistic

It seems strange knowing A WING AND A PRAYER was made as comparatively as recent as 1998 because I could have sworn this might have originally have been called AIRPORT 71 , 73 , 76, or 81 . Anyone else think it was written when disaster movies were all the rage in the cinematic world ? Anyone else think there might be a good reason it's been lying on a shelf for twenty five years ? Having said that it might have actually have been written before the invention of the airplane , how else can you explain the writers getting away with a sequence of " he woke up and it was all a bad dream " very early in the film ? I guess being a TVM they can get away with this sort of red herring Oh yes it's a TVM so we have to endure a lot of lovey dovey stuff between the two protagonists thereby holding up the story , but it's not much of a story as we're treated to all the trademark cardboard cutouts on a plane journey to boredom . There's the arrogant philistine , the ballsy stewardess , the cute kid but thankfully the singing nun and the alcoholic priest missed their flight and anything that can go wrong will , as long as it's not going to cut into the budget because this is a TVM remember
Reviewed by surface6669 6 / 10

funny stuff...

This was an interesting movie, but laughable if you're trying to learn more about how air traffic controllers actually operate. They work in the dark (not in a well-lit room as in the movie) for one. Up until recently, they did have sub-standard equipment dating back to the Dark Ages. Lots of smaller, towered airports still have old equipment to this day...scary. One funny thing that I noted in the movie was during some of the outdoor scenes in the "rain"...you could see a reflection of the crew aiming water hoses up in the air to create the effect of rain. The ending was a complete joke. I like Claudia Christian a lot, but even she doesn't make this movie very watchable...avoid it except when in desperate need of entertainment.
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