Skyward
A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.
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- Drama
- Family
- TV Movie
Overview
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Keywords
- physical disability
- disability
- wheelchair user
- new student
- pilot training
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 20, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Major H Productions,Anson Productions
- Cast
- Ben Marley,Greta Blackburn,Irma P. Hall,Mark Wheeler,Rhonda Minton,Howard Hesseman,Bill Blackwood,Rusty McCaskey,Bill Thurman,Marion Rossand 9 more
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writer
- Nancy Sackett,Anson Williams
- Producer
- John A. Kuri,Ron Howard,Anson Williams
- Cinematography
- Robert C. Jessup
- Music
- Lee Holdridge
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0081526