Cabin Pressure(2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Alicia S Mason, Christopher Sky, Jon Briddell
Director: Peter Sullivan
Writer(s): Connor Jamieson
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After takeoff, flight attendant Nora gets a call from a stranger blackmailing her into poisoning a passenger in exchange for her family. One way or another, someone is going to die during this flight as they get closer to their destination.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Inspired by actual events
The move begins with an airline executive, Miles, shedding light on aviation safety, or its lack thereof. He is arrested for whistleblowing and putting the airline into potential bankruptcy.
Nora is a flight attendant trying to arrange a surprise birthday gift (a cell phone) for her daughter, Jordan. Nora’s husband seems annoyed that Nora is always traveling (even though that is her literal job). Nora is so successful that she even makes it on the cover of a popular airplane magazine, with a featured story!
The additional cabin crew includes two gays, Parker and Jerry. There is also a girl named Ariel with tweedles. The Flight is heading to Washington, D.C. (Where I’m from!)
The Flight has a cast of characters on board. Ranging from a social media influencer to a probable terrorist. The movie seems to be putting the most emphasis on Miles, who is flying with an air marshal, and a little girl traveling alone for the first time.
Nora, an expert at her job, finds herself in a tense situation. She catches a man smoking in the bathroom and handles high-maintenance clients with ease. But when she steps away to take a call, the situation takes a dark turn. The man on the other end threatens to kill her daughter if she doesn’t follow his instructions. He orders her to serve a hidden ginger ale to Seat 7E, which she suspects might be poisoned. (If I were the passenger, I’d be like, “WTF, I didn’t order this.”) The passenger, of course, is Miles Jennings, who is the star witness in the trial against the airline.
Since Nora changed Miles’ seat, she knows whoever is calling her phone is on the plane, but also someone is sending pictures of her daughter in the house making a sandwich. It is a team effort. Nora tries to drop off the Ginger Ale, but the flight marshal wants creamer for his coffee and pulls a power play, which is random and rude. There is a struggle, and Nora drops the Ginger Ale. (It is probably the most dramatic soda spill in an airplane ever.)
If you thought not having a cellphone wouldn’t come into play, don’t worry, the person watching Jordan cuts the phone line, and she is cut off from the world. Jordan sees the phone repair guy outside and asks him to help fix her phone. As she waits inside, she uses THE INTERNET to look up the phone company staff and sees that Noah isn’t who he says he is. Jordan locks all the doors and windows and hides from Fake Noah.
The creepy caller calls Nora back and gives her 10 minutes to pour another bottle of poisoned Ginger Ale for Miles. Nora can’t go to her co-workers for help, but they all love her.
Nora drops off the drink, but Miles is asleep, so she tries to locate the onboard caller and suspects it might be the air marshal. Nora asks Ariel for the passenger manifest on the DL. The plane experiences some turbulence, but when they hit smooth air, people start moving around/standing, like nothing I’ve seen on a moving airplane before. Nora makes a loud announcement to wake Miles up so he will drink his damn Ginger Ale, which he does.
Miles immediately feels the effects of his drink and passes out. The snob in first class just so happens to be a doctor and revives him.
Undeterred by a locked door, the Fake Noah, drills through the door and enters the house to find Jordan. She locks herself in her room and can’t call for help because she doesn’t have a cell phone! Jordan goes on the run through the woods and randomly into her dad. He fights with Fake Noah in the woods over a knife. (Truly, what is happening?)
This movie is losing steam, but we get some dizzying whirling camera effects to spice things up. Nora still doesn’t know who the caller is, and she is running out of time because it is only an hour and a half long movie, I mean… Flight.
Nora brings a THIRD glass to Miles, and the Flight Marshall is hella suspicious. He accuses Nora of poisoning the soda and causes a scene. The Marshall grabs Nora in a chokehold, and she comes clean about the whole thing. Nora calls her husband to make sure Jordan is safe and tells him they are landing the plane in 15 minutes.
The Air Marshall conducts an investigation and checks everyone’s phone, except that little girl. (I’d be gagged if she were the caller.) He tells everyone to go off airplane mode, hold their phones up, and has Nora place the call. The phone rings and is coming from the paper towel holder in he bathroom.
The plane lands, and everyone is a suspect. The Air Marshall calls for backup on the ground. He plans to question everyone as they deplane.
Meanwhile, Jordan and her dad go to his office to stay safe until the terrorists are caught. Fake Noah is there, and they get into ANOTHER fight.
Nora gets another call, and this time the caller says she is going to be the one to die. Parker comes out of the cabin, and they fight using everything on the plane. It is like Britney Spears’ Toxic music video.
Jordan finally celebrates her Birthday, and they sing the WHITE people’s version? I know it is royalty-free now, but couldn’t they at least be in tune? Jordan gets her cell phone. The end!
STRAY Thoughts
Why was Fake Noah so hot?
The shots of people thoroughly cleaning the plane were the most unrealistic thing about this movie, TBH.
The Little Girl served no purpose! I suppose it’s to encourage young girls to become pilots or something.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪(2 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Kidnapped Daughter, Unknown Caller, Work Drama,
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷 (2 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
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Amateurish. Trash. Unbelievably poor acting. Can’t believe I watched the whole thing.
Haven’t watched this yet but early impressions based on the description make it sound like it is a takeoff (no pun intended lol) from the movie Carry On.
The marshal was the worst character in the movie. Just because you’re high ranked in armed forces doesn’t give you the right to push people around who you think are beneath you. Other characters weren’t any better and were constantly testing my patience.
Aww man I guess I was the only one who liked it! Definitely not the worst acting of this year. Who were the 2 kills? Real Parker and .. the office friend?
Also you say you’re from DC but are you from… DC? Or Moco or Nova or PG? I’m from Baltimore but actually a part of Baltimore and know we all use that interchangeably.
I liked it too, it was entertaining. But WHY was Parker behind this?! What did I miss?!
My mom liked it!
Delta is the airline I fly with and at the end of my flights I almost always see people wearing the same vests and that the cleaners in the movie wore as I walk down the aisle. So I wouldn’t say it’s not realistic. Probably just from my own experiences