Sky High (1990) (TV)

Directors:

James Fargo
James Whitmore Jr.

Writers (WGA):

Ruben Gordon (written by) &
Steve Schoenberg (written by)

Release Date:

11 March 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Drama

Plot:

Two midwestern farmboys (Damon Martin, Anthony Rapp) inherit a vintage bi-plane and then learn to fly it from an eccentric former stunt pilot (James Whitmore). |

Plot Keywords:

Kids And Family

Cast

Shirley Barclay	...	Woman on Ferry
Ian Black	...	Heckler #2
Randy Charach	...	Dealer
John Bear Curtis	...	Frank
Larry Ewashen	...	Hank
Marcy Goldberg	...	Comic
Anna Hagan	...	Mary
Antony Holland	...	2nd Old Man
Franklin Johnson	...	1st Old Man
Campbell Lane	...	Mr. Crawford (as Cam Lane)
Traci Lind	...	Dawn
Byron Lucas	...	Sal
Blu Mankuma	...	Detective Hiatt
Damon Martin	...	Jim Lincoln
Tom McBeath	...	Auctioneer
David McCulley	...	Bidder #1
Dwight McFee	...	Murphy
Larry Musser	...	Onlooker #3
Annie Oringer
David Paymer
Chuck Perry	...	Pete
Alan C. Peterson	...	Onlooker #1
Anthony Rapp	...	Wes Hansen
Andrew Rhodes	...	Onlooker #2
Silvio Rossi	...	Conductor
Wilf Rowe	...	Store Detective
James Stevens	...	Bidder #2
Don Thompson	...	Manny
Dave 'Squatch' Ward	...	Heckler #1
Jerry Wasserman	...	Ralph
James Whitmore	...	Gus Johnson

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Patrick Hasburgh Productions

A kid's movie. A bit boring if you don't like planes...

The story: Two kids living in the middle of nowhere watch the funeral of the old guy in town that no one likes. They decide to attend the auction where all his property is sold, and due to bad weather and lack of interest by anyone else, they buy his old barn and all its contents for tuppence. As they open it up and have a look inside, they find an old red biplane - and suddenly they have the chance to get away from their boring lives... After their pilot training at the hands of an old (ancient) stunt pilot, it also involves stranding in a colony of treehugging hippyfolk that send them on a quest to find a runaway girl in Vancouver, with the second half of the movie sharing a few aspects with Oliver Twist.

As kids' entertainment goes, this isn't bad. It's average. I used to like the movie a lot because I am fanatical about planes - without that hobby, I might have found it a lot more boring. Indeed, the few shots of Vancouver airport with planes of now-defunct Wardair Canada in the background endeared the movie to my heart - something someone less into aviation would not understand. So, if you take out the planes, what you're left with is a slightly surreal, not very exciting movie for kids. And it does not have one consistent storyline - the entire thing feels like 3 episodes of a series about kids in a plane stitched together, and not like one story.

Average.