Movie Info
Starring: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Jamey Sheridan, Jerry Ferrara, Max Adler, Sam Huntington
Story: Bio-drama directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood. Based on the true, Sully (2016) centers on Captain “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), who on January 15, 2009, glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
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Top Sully Quotes
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: It was not a crash. It was a forced water landing.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: The best chance those passengers had was on that river. And I’d bet my life on it. In fact, I did. And I would do it again.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time.
Jeff Skiles: Why are they looking for something we did wrong when it all turned out right?
Mike Cleary: It didn’t turn out all right for the airline and their insurance company. We should expect some blowback.
Lorrie Sullenberger: The whole world is talking about you. My Sully.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: I want you to know, I did the best I could.
Lorrie Sullenberger: Of course you did. You saved everyone.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: This is so surreal. I guess I’m having a little trouble separating reality from whatever the hell this is.
Jeff Skiles: Don’t worry. You did a great thing. It’s going to be remembered for a very long time.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Here’s the funny thing. I’ve delivered a million passengers over forty years in the air, but in the end, I’m going to be judged on two hundred and eight seconds.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: I don’t feel like a hero. I’m just a man who was doing his job. The right man for the job at the right time.
LT Cook: A pilot never stops acquiring knowledge. You’ll make mistakes, everyone does. Just learn from them. And never forget, no matter what’s happening, to fly the airplane.
Charles Porter: Look, I’m sorry if you’re frustrated, but our job is to investigate how a plane ended up in the Hudson River.
Jeff Skiles: On the Hudson.
Jeff Skiles: Here’s the most important fact. There’s only two people who know what happened in the cockpit that day and I’m one of them.
Jeff Skiles: They’re playing Pacman. You were flying a plane full of human beings.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Somehow, that’s not how I remember it. It just doesn’t seem right.
Jeff Skiles: It’s because it’s not right. Sully, you did everything you could and it was more than enough. Ask the passengers. Ask your wife and kids. Ask mine.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: If this goes badly, my career as a safety expert will end as a website and a business card.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: What if I did get this wrong, so close to the end of my career? If I endangered the lives of all those passengers?
Lorraine Sullenberger: Sully, watch the news. You’re a hero.
Lorraine Sullenberger: Then why did you do it, Sully?
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: What, land in the water?
Lorraine Sullenberger: Wasn’t that the most dangerous thing you could have done?
Jeff Skiles: Life’s easier in the air.
Jeff Skiles: I’ve never been so happy to be in New York in my life.
Carl Clark: It’s been a while since New York had news this good. Especially with an airplane in it.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: It’s all about the timing, Larry. You can accomplish anything if you’re never in a hurry.
Lorraine Sullenberger: [to Sully] I realized just now, for the first time, that were a hundred and fifty-five people on that plane and you were one of them. We almost lost you.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: No one warned us. No one said, “You are going to lose both engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history. But be cool. Just make a left turn for LaGuardia like you’re going back to pick up the milk.” This was dual engine loss at twenty-eight hundred feet followed by an immediate water landing with one hundred fifty-five souls onboard. No one has ever trained for an incident like that No one.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: You are looking for human error. Then make it human. This wasn’t a video game. It was life and death.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: [to the passengers] This is the captain. Brace for impact.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: I’m just so damn proud.
Jeff Skiles: And you, you were right there, through all that distraction. With so much at stake.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: We did this together. We were a team.
Jeff Skiles: Thanks, Sully.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: We did our job.
Jeff Skiles: We did our job.
Elizabeth Davis: I can say with absolute confidence that after speaking with the rest of the flight crew, with bird experts, aviation engineers, after running through every scenario, after interviewing each player, there is still an “X” in this result and it’s you, Captain Sullenberger. Remove you from the equation, and the math just fails.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: I disagree. It wasn’t just me. It was all of us. It was Jeff, and Donna, and Sheila, and Doreen, and all of the passengers, the rescue workers, air traffic control, ferry boat crews, and the scuba cops. We all did it. We survived.
Elizabeth Davis: Anything you would have done differently if you had to do it again?
Jeff Skiles: Yes. I would have done it in July.