"I want you to save me."

Do you remember this movie? Maybe you do. I don't think it turned many heads when it came out in 1993.
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
This is the ending scene. After Max has "saved" everyone, he is an emotional wreck. He's reached his limit. Just before this scene starts, his wife turns to him in the kitchen, "What is it, Max?"
He replies, "I want you to save me." (greatest line EVER!)
In one last test of God, he eats a strawberry. It causes an allergic reaction. The music starts as he relives the crash that started his downward spiral.


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