The Greatest Man in the World (1981)
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy.
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Beautiful, moving film.
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
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While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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