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Skyward (1980)
Directed by Ron Howard
“A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.”
Drama, Family, TV Movie · 1h 40m
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.
Cast
Bette Davis
Billie Dupree
Howard Hesseman
Koup Trenton
Suzy Barbieri
Julie Ward
Marion Ross
Natalie Ward
Clu Gulager
Steve Ward
Ben Marley
Scott Billings
Lisa Whelchel
Lisa Ward
Irma P. Hall
Mrs. Sinclair
M
Mark Wheeler
Mr. Olsen
Jessie Lee Fulton
Secretary
Bill Thurman
Pilot #1
Rance Howard
Pilot #2
Crew
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writer
- Nancy Sackett
- Director of Photography
- Robert C. Jessup
- Original Music Composer
- Lee Holdridge
- Editor
- Robert James Kern
- Producer
- John A. Kuri
Details
- Release date
- 1980-11-20
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Anson Productions, Major H Productions