The first fiction film made in IMAX 3-D, Wings of Courage is based on a true story about the first air-mail service in South America to fly across the Andes. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who has made a career of taking his camera into uncharted territory), it stars Craig Sheffer, Tom Hulce, and (in a cameo) Val Kilmer. But it's really Sheffer's movie: He plays Henri Guillaumet, who tries to cross the Andes in a biplane in 1930. When bad weather forces him down, he must walk out--and what a walk it is. Sheffer did many of his own stunts on the sheer rock faces he must traverse. Not for the acrophobic; mercifully, Annaud didn't use the 3-D to create thrill-ride effects, but the scenes in high places are effective nonetheless. --Marshall Fine
