• Director(s)

    James Erskine

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    15/11/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Bryan Allen, Jordan Renzo, Theo Erskine

Film

The Flight of Bryan

drug misuse

This uplifting documentary recounts the 1970s story of a ragtag team determined to master the skies with a human-powered aircraft. It includes hallucinogenic drug sequences, but celebrates neurodiversity and teamwork.…

This uplifting documentary recounts the 1970s story of a ragtag team determined to master the skies with a human-powered aircraft. It includes hallucinogenic drug sequences, but celebrates neurodiversity and teamwork.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

theme

sexual violence and sexual threat

  • Director(s)

    James Erskine

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    15/11/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Bryan Allen, Jordan Renzo, Theo Erskine

drug misuse
Classified Date:
22/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Altitude Film Distribution
violence
A ball hits a child in a moment of comic slapstick.
threat and horror
Archive footage of crashing hang-gliders is featured; a man talks about the number of hang-gliding fatalities that occurred in the early days of the activity. There are tense sequences as a human-powered aircraft threatens to crash or break up over the English Channel.
language
There is occasional mild bad language ('shit', 'piss') as well as milder terms which include 'God', 'damn'.
sex
A woman says she once appeared in the pornographic magazine 'Penthouse'.
discrimination
A neurodiverse man talks about being ostracised as a child and referred to as a 'weirdo', before the condition of Asperger's syndrome was recognised or diagnosed. Neurodiversity is presented positively throughout the film.
drugs
A man describes going on a 'vision quest' and taking an unspecified hallucinogenic substance; this is represented by a sequence of psychedelic imagery and sight of a bird-headed figure the man claims to have seen. There are verbal references to 'tripping'.
theme
There are verbal references to a man's post traumatic stress disorder after his return home from the Vietnam war.

  • Classified date

    22/10/2024

  • Language

    English