In a stark departure from the cockpit, an elite fighter pilot, portrayed with gripping intensity by Anne Hathaway, finds her world reduced to a trailer in the Nevada desert. "Grounded" thrusts her into the modern paradox of warfare, trading the visceral thrill of aerial combat for the sterile, pixelated reality of operating a drone. Directed by Rich Peppiatt, this tense drama explores the psychological chasm between the battlefield and the home front, as the pilot executes lethal missions from thousands of miles away only to drive home each evening to the mundane demands of family life. The film masterfully builds a claustrophobic atmosphere, contrasting the vast, empty desert skies with the suffocating confines of her control station, as the once-clear lines between duty, morality, and sanity begin to dangerously blur.
