Con Air
1997 · TMDB 6.8
Directed by Simon West
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
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Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-fl...
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- Runtime
- 116 min
- Released
- 1997-06-05
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.8
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Simon West
Director
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Scott Rosenberg
Writer
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Nicolas Cage
Cameron Poe
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John Cusack
Agent Vince Larkin
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John Malkovich
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
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Ving Rhames
Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
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Mykelti Williamson
"Baby-O" O'Dell
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Dave Chappelle
"Pinball" Parker
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Colm Meaney
Agent Duncan Malloy
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Monica Potter
Tricia Poe