Film · Drama, Family, TV Movie
Skyward (1980)
A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writers
- Anson Williams, Nancy Sackett
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- November 20, 1980
Cast
Bette DavisBillie Dupree
Howard HessemanKoup Trenton
Suzy BarbieriJulie Ward
Marion RossNatalie Ward
Clu GulagerSteve Ward
Ben MarleyScott Billings
Lisa WhelchelLisa Ward
Irma P. HallMrs. Sinclair- Mark WheelerMr. Olsen
Jessie Lee FultonSecretary
Bill ThurmanPilot #1
Rance HowardPilot #2- Rhonda MintonStephanie
- Gene PietragalloJason
Greta BlackburnMiss Russell- Jeff NicholsonTheatre Usher
- Kate FinlaysonNurse
- Rusty McCaskeyBoy in Class
- Bill BlackwoodSelf
