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Fearless is a 1993 movie directed by Peter Weir and written by Rafael Yglesias from his novel.

Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo. She lost to Anna Paquin. The film features Henryk Górecki's third symphony, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

Max Klein is a survivor of an airplane crash. Many died, including his business partner. The trauma transforms his entire life. He enters an altered state of consciousness; soon after the crash he even thinks he is dead, and begins rethinking life, death, God, and the afterlife. Existential questions start to preoccupy his life. He moves away from his wife, son, and friends but, encouraged by an aircraft company psychiatrist, he tries to break the depression and apathy of another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who lost her baby son during the flight.

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The doomed flight in the movie bears many resemblances with the real-life crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989:

The plane suffered a failure in the hydraulics system, following an engine explosion.
The crew attempted an emergency landing, and most of the passengers and crew survived.
The speech given by the Captain to the passengers before impact resembles closely to the one Captain Al Haynes gave in real life, including his closing line "Good luck to us all."
A man receives media coverage for saving the life of a small child. In the movie, the hero is Max Klein, a survivor. In real life, it was Colonel Dennis Nielsen, a rescuer.

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