Restless Spirits

UPC: 758445302820

Studio: Showtime Entertainment

Summary: The ghosts of two daring pilots help a troubled young girl in this fantasy for the family. In 1927, a pair of French air aces, Charles Nungesser (Lothaire Bluteau) and Francois Coli (Michel Monty) hop into a single-engine biplane and take off for New York City with the intention of becoming the first pilots to cross the Atlantic non-stop. However, they fail to arrive in New York and are never heard from again. 70 years later, 12-year-old Katie Penhallow (Juliana Wimbles) and her brother are sent to Newfoundland to visit their grandmother, Lydia (Marsha Mason). Both Katie and her brother have had a difficult time dealing with the death of their father, a pilot who lost his life while testing a plane several years before. One night, while exploring at a pond near Grandmother's house, Katie encounters Nungesser and Coli, who look remarkably alive and healthy for two men who have been dead for seven decades. The flyboys tell Katie they are actually the spirits of the lost aviators, and they will not be able to rest until they can rescue their wrecked aircraft from the pond. While Katie has a hard time convincing anyone of what she saw, for the first time since her father's death she has a focus and purpose in life that takes her mind off her feelings about her dad. Shown on premium cable in the United States under the title Restless Spirits, Dead Aviators was shown under its original title in 1999 at Sprockets, the Toronto Film Festival for Children, and on CBC television in Canada. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Features: [None specified]

Restless Spirits

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 09/04/2001

Audio: 2 PCM stereo

Runtime: 95 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Chapters
1. Airborne [2:27]
2. To Grandma's [3:34]
3. Phantoms [5:36]
4. Lonely [10:58]
5. The Gift [2:20]
6. Help Us! [5:15]
7. From Another World [5:20]
8. Teamwork [13:55]
9. Bad News [11:18]
10. Patched Up [7:35]
11. Memories [10:50]
12. Going Home [6:02]

Cast and Crew: David Wellington  Director 
Patrick Whitley  Producer 
Susan Cavan  Producer 
Ron Sures  Composer (Music Score) 
Semi Chellas  Screenwriter 
Lothaire Bluteau  Actor 
Michael Monty  Actor 
Juliana Wimbles  Actor 
Marsha Mason  Actor 
Leslie Hope  Actor 
Ben Cook  Actor 
Eugene Lipinski  Actor 
Brooke Johnson  Actor 
Dan Lett  Actor 
Jim Allodi  Actor 

Country: Canada