Last Flight Home

"Join the Timoners as they embark on their father's final journey"

2022 1h 41m EN

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★6.7TMDB · 9

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Eli Timoner, a dedicated husband, father, and entrepreneur who founded the airline Air Florida in the 1970s, decides to medically terminate his life. During the 15-day waiting period, the bedridden but sharp-witted Eli says goodbye to those closest to him and helps them prepare for his departure. While his loved ones look back on Eli's successes and devastating blows, they struggle to reconcile his choice.

“Join the Timoners as they embark on their father's final journey”

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Cast

Eli Timoner
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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ondi Timoner
Writers: Ondi Timoner
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ondi Timoner, shot by Ondi Timoner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Morgan Doctor. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Join the Timoners as they embark on their father's final journey".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt16377430 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 9 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Ondi Timoner directs. Ondi Timoner behind the camera. Morgan Doctor scores. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by Ondi Timoner, shot by Ondi Timoner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Morgan Doctor. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Marketing tagline: "Join the Timoners as they embark on their father's final journey".
6IMDB entry: tt16377430 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 9 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ondi Timoner
Original score: Morgan Doctor
Runtime: 101 min · 1h 41m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Last Flight Home (2022)

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CinemaSerf2022-11-09
★ 6/10
This is quite a touching, if very intrusive, look at the final weeks of former entrepreneur Eli Timoner. Being the victim of a freak stroke during a routine massage, his career was quite literally stopped in it's tracks as he, and his wife and three children, had to adapt to his increasingly disabling mobility issues and to the concomitant financial consequences of his inability to work. Now, at the age of 92, this lucid and engaging individual has had enough and so wishes to avail himself of his right to a medically assisted death. The political aspects of this documentary illustrate well the trauma the man himself and the family are put through as the regulations require clinical evaluation and for him to physically administer the doses himself - one heck of task for this frail gent. Doubtless this thread of the film will elicit a great many views on the right to die, and taken objectively this has valid comment to make that clearly contributes to that debate. Sadly, though, as we begin to follow the final days of his life - on an almost day-by-day basis - I found myself feeling increasingly uncomfortable. Not with the topic, but with the intimacy of the filming that was, essentially, none of my business. Daughter Ondi, who was behind virtually every aspect of this production, seems intent on sharing the most private moments of this rather emotionally charged environment. Her style of story-telling is supremely self-indulgent, and her attitude to her mother (who comes across as less enthusiastic participating in this audio-visual farewell to her husband of a great may years) really annoyed me. Indeed, as the documentary concluded I found the whole thing became less and less appropriate for general viewing. An ideal video-eulogy for the family, certainly, but for ordinary cinema goes it just felt that I was trespassing on their familial ordeal and, ultimately, grief. Perhaps my attitude is tainted by own beliefs regarding euthanasia, but this film quickly stops being about that and develops into something I found became far more about the daughter than the issue at hand.

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