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Final Destination is a 2000 horror movie. It was followed in 2003 by Final Destination 2
and 2006 by Final Destination 3
. Distributed by New Line Cinema, it was directed by James Wong. The film is loosely based on the crash of TWA Flight 800, which acts as a startout point for the rest of the film. The plot was based on an unused X-Files episode. Notably the director James Wong acted as a writer, producer, director of the series . Final Destination's DVD was released on September 26th, 2000. The film was rated "R" by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Plot

The movie begins with a group of teenagers on their way to a class trip to Paris. One of them, Alex (played by Devon Sawa), has a vision that the airplane, almost always referred to as Flight 180, is going to explode after takeoff, and causes a commotion over it. He, along with a teacher and several students with whom he subsequently argues, is kicked off the plane. As the group continues the dispute in the lobby of the airport, they soon witness the plane exploding right after takeoff outside.

The FBI soon investigates the circumstances of the tragedy, suspicious of Alex's "premonition" and soon suspecting that he may have had something to do with the explosion. Later, the fortunate few go on to live their spared lives. One month after the plane accident, one of survivors soon meets a grisly end in an accident. Shortly after, another survivor dies horribly.

Alex deduces that Death has a specific design for everyone, and Alex and the other plane survivors cheated the design once by getting off the flight. However, they are now all stuck in a new vision as Death sets out to claim them once and for all. When the cause of the plane explosion is discovered, Alex figures out that Death is targeting him and his friends in the same order that they would have died had they stayed on the plane.

With new girlfriend, the skeptical Clear (Ali Larter), Alex decides that the only way they can thwart Death once more is to figure out each new design and escape their predetermined fates again. After one of the survivors escapes his seeming inevitable end and another is immediately claimed, the remaining ones figure that they are safe if a death is intervened by someone else and the design skips ahead to the next person. Alex takes precautions when he inevitably comes to the head of the line, but must hurry when he realizes that the person next in the design is really Clear.

Cast & Characters

Alex Chance Browning (Devon Sawa
): Alex, the main character, has a premonition that Flight 180 will explode. Making a scene before take-off, he and six other people get off the plane and witness the disaster.
Clear Rivers (Ali Larter
): Clear was not very talkative and open with people, but she felt some sort of connection with Alex at the airport. Believing his premonition, she gets off the plane and finds that she made the right choice as the plane really does explode. She at first does not believe the concept of Death's design, but eventually does. Clear falls in love with Alex.
Carter Horton (Kerr Smith
): The jerk, Carter resents Alex throughout the film, thinking that he is some sort of freak. He got off Flight 180 when he was fighitng with Alex.
William Bludworth (Tony Todd
): After Tod's death, Clear and Alex want to examine his body at the morgue. They meet a very mysterious mortician whol tells them about Death and its design. Alex takes this information and uses it to prevent future deaths.
Valerie Lewton (Kristen Cloke
): One of the teachers on Flight 180. When Alex and Carter fight on the plane, she and another teacher get off to settle the two students. Finding out that Alex and Carter got kicked off the plane, Ms. Lewton tells the other teacher to go back while she stays behind and catches a later flight. When Flight 180 explodes, she becomes very depressed and wants to move - away from the memories. She resents Alex, thinking him as some sort of witch.
Billy Hitchcock (Sean William Scott): On Flight 180, he got in the middle of Carter's and Alex's fight and Billy too was kicked off. He is the jokester of the group, but not really friends with anyone.
Terry Chaney (Amanda Detmer
): Carter's girlfriend. She gets off Flight 180, because Carter got off.
Tod Waggner (Chad E. Donella): Alex's best friend. When Alex gets off the plane, Tod's brother, George, tells him to accompany Alex. George dies on the plane, and Tod's father somehow blames Alex for the crash and Tod's friendship with Alex is strained.
Agent Weine (Daniel Roebuck
): Investing the Flight 180 case. He follows Alex around, thinking that Alex might have had something to do with Flight 180's explosion and the deaths afterwards.
Agent Schreck
(Roger Guenveur Smith): Agent Weine's partner.

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