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Don't Read This on a Plane

  • 2020
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
828
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Sophie Desmarais in Don't Read This on a Plane (2020)
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A drama-comedy about a novelist hitchhiking across Europe to complete her book tour after her publisher goes bankrupt.A drama-comedy about a novelist hitchhiking across Europe to complete her book tour after her publisher goes bankrupt.A drama-comedy about a novelist hitchhiking across Europe to complete her book tour after her publisher goes bankrupt.

  • Director
    • Stuart McBratney
  • Writer
    • Stuart McBratney
  • Stars
    • Julia Strowski
    • Sophie Desmarais
    • Hildegard Schroedter
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
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    • Director
      • Stuart McBratney
    • Writer
      • Stuart McBratney
    • Stars
      • Julia Strowski
      • Sophie Desmarais
      • Hildegard Schroedter
    • 26User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins total

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    Julia Strowski
    Julia Strowski
    • Li
    Sophie Desmarais
    Sophie Desmarais
    • Jovana Fey
    Hildegard Schroedter
    Hildegard Schroedter
    • Maria
    Victor von Schirach
    Victor von Schirach
    • Elias
    Susanna Dekker
    Susanna Dekker
    • Lanka
    Dorotheea Petre
    Dorotheea Petre
    • Ksenia
    Nicolas Bravos
    • Brad
    Dominique Thomas
    Dominique Thomas
    • Ivan
    Karim Theilgaard
    Karim Theilgaard
    • Ricardo
    Cassie Osborne
    Cassie Osborne
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    Oana Mosneagu
    • Ophelia
    • (as Ioana Mosneagu)
    Allen C. Gardner
    Allen C. Gardner
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    Ana Pasti
    Ana Pasti
    • Irina
    Joost Renders
    • Nicu
    Jürgen Heimüller
    Jürgen Heimüller
    • Harry
    Daria Pisareva
    • Jacqui
    Melinda Pitz
    Melinda Pitz
    • Yasmine
    Susann Mertz
    • Agnieszka
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      • Stuart McBratney
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      • Stuart McBratney
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    5rahshe

    The message is about the journey

    I would encourage anyone who is striving, struggling, and pushing on a journey to make your life vision a reality. This movie is about what's happens when your meet with a road block on your journey to greatness. Yes, it's a movie, but sometimes movies are meant to do more than entertain there is a lesson to learn.
    6ops-52535

    made on a penny in a pandemic europe

    Is my first response to this flick. its a flight and road trip story about a young female writer, doing a booktour through europe, starting in venice, she find her hotel reservation not excisting. talking to her publisher at home she gets to know that the company is bankrupt, and the author has to make her way on her own, pennyless, the only thing that is for sure is that all her plane tickets has been prepaid, so the travel can be done anyway.

    so if you like a life travelling europe, with your books in your bag and the bookworms crawling in and out of your ears this maybe a good flick for you.

    productionwise, its colourfilled and with beautiful scenic views, its filmographic impression seems to me a bit colourenhanced, but well put together. the score varies a lot, starting of in a strange adventourous tone but turns over to a more cheap standard as the film develops. the outdoor shoots seems very pandemic in its surroundings, at places where you'd expect to see lots of people its deserted, and pretty calm

    the acting are average, the main female caracter does a very nice job, acting wice and looking extremely good, a bit sexy you might say, and is in a good companionship with the contents of very sexually written nature of the book she's touring with, with the title'' dont read this on a plane''.

    so if you need to switch of your daily stress, then this is a fun little romp of caracter development, and touring europe on a empty wallet for dummies, then the grumpy old man recommends
    6loudluthrn

    Lots of unrealized potential

    This was a pleasant little movie, but the attempt at light but more overt comedy (mostly centered on the main character's reading to patrons from her erotic book) often fell flat. The writing in general was not very inspired. I think the multicultural cast did well with the script they had, but the storyline and character development worked against their efforts. Overall, I thought the cast was relatively well balanced although certainly there seemed to be newcomers and perhaps some language and cultural challenges in communicating the story. On the plus side, if you traveled low budget in Europe, you will relate to aspects of this film. That could have been capitalized on. Yet, the movie is more about the main character's self discovery than travel, and I think developing more humor and empathy from her experience should have been drawn out by the writer's. As for the cinematography, I found it top notch. Many scenes were stunning.
    aapple2001

    Patchy

    Good eye candy with the variety of locations, the music is off-putting, there are flashes of entertaining writing and the frequency of poor acting is frustrating.

    Ultimately this film is unsatisfying.
    8surkant07-122-179617

    Nice one, This movie is like almost reading a book.

    The movie: Don't Read This on a Plane.

    Isn't a movie that you will regret that you have wasted your time. Try to enjoy it like reading book, a movie that you will enjoy.

    It was boring when I was watching it like a movie when I understood that I had to enjoy it like a reading a book it was very nice.

    I did not regret after watching this move I hope you willl also find it interesting.

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    • Release date
      • June 17, 2021 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Australia
      • Romania
      • France
      • Germany
      • Greece
      • Hungary
      • Italy
      • Netherlands
      • Portugal
    • Official sites
      • Official website
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 別在飛機上看書
    • Filming locations
      • Oradea, Romania
    • Production companies
      • Amazing Visuals
      • Mcbrat Motion Pictures
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      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
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      • 2.35 : 1

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