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Junior Pilot

German title: Junior Pilot – Ein Kid für alle Fälle
Francaise title: Pilote junior
Spain title: Un Piloto Adolescente
Russian title: Младший пилот
Original title: Junior Pilot

Alternative titles:
Final Approach

Youth adventure – USA
Production year: 2003
Movie length: 92 minutes

Director: James Becket

Movie description:

10-year-old Ricky spends hours playing his flight simulator game on his home computer. He also has a vivid imagination and as a result nobody believes his far out stories. On a flight to Washington DC, he discovers a pair of kidnappers and robbers on the flight, but can’t convince anyone that the crimes in progress are real. So, it’s up to him and his buddies to capture the criminals, but instead, they manage to capture a federal sky marshal who was on the flight. The criminals are finally arrested and cuffed, but the passengers’ troubles are only beginning ... both the pilot and co-pilot have been injected with tranquilizers. Now it’s up to Ricky and his flight simulator experience to land the giant jet-liner.

Â«Junior Pilot« is a 2005 family movie. A ten-year-old computer flight simulator en-thusiast is forced to put his skills to the ultimate test when his cross-country flight is hijacked in screenwriter/director James Becket’s high-flying adventure.

Junior Pilot is the story of a young boy with a lively imagination. Ricky (Jordan Garrett) wears a rubber band on his wrist that he can snap to bring himself back to real-ity. In his imagination, he’s an airline pilot, commando soldier and ninja – in real life he’s just a nerd being bullied.
But on a school trip, flying to Washington D.C. to visit the Smithsonian, he gets a chance to be a hero – for real!
The trips doesn’t start too well as he annoys one of his teachers by correcting his spelling – and then seeing sinister terrorists and criminals at the airport – one of them a bald Asian-looking guy! Snapping his elastic band doesn’t make all the bad people go away this time...

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