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Con Air Details

1997 Certificate 18
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Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's put aboard a flight .. Read more

Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi
Director Simon West
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's put aboard a flight transporting ten of the most dangerous men in the American penal system to a new high-security facility. One of the criminals, Cyrus The Virus Grissom (John Malkovich), is a serial killer and insane genius who has hatched a diabolical plot: with the help of several other hoods, including Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), Johnny 23 (Daniel Trejo), and Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi), Cyrus and his men will hijack the plane and fly to a neutral nation where they can live as free men. Poe finds himself stuck in the middle; he has to find a way to get home, keep himself alive, look after his cellmate Baby-O (Mykelti Williamson), who will die without proper medicine, and try to help the cops on the ground, including agent Vince Larkin (John Cusack). Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first film after the death of his partner Don Simpson, Con Air shows he learned well how to assemble the formula all by himself, with plenty of action, stunts, and special effects and not a lot of story to get in the way.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Rachel Ticotin, David Ramsey, Jesse Borrego, Steve Eastin, Nick Chinlund, Angela Featherstone, Monica Potter, Danny Trejo, Fredric Lane
Director Simon West
Studio TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Collections Release The Tension
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed French, Italian
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Dutch, English, French
Released Production year: 1997

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DVD: 02 Jul 2001
Blu-ray: 02 Jul 2007

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    • 1 stars out of 4  

      Uproarious but enjoyable nonsense, marked by much gunfire, loud explosions, over-the-top acting and, when it can be heard, some witty dialogue.

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      Con Air is great

      It's just an excellent all action movie with a bit of comedy and a bit of romance.

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      cages best

      great film highly watchable and you can watch it again and again and never get sick.

      Really good action film

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      Con Air

      Great cheesy action movie. Can't go wrong if you want a good action movie that is not trying to be clever or complex

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    Con Air sequel in the works

    • 29 Jan 2011

    Director Simon West has confirmed he's making plans to reunite with Nicolas Cage for a Con Air sequel. Cage played a convict caught up in a mid-air riot on a prisoner plane in the 1997 action-thriller, which also featured star turns from John Cusack and John Malkovich. West, who directed the original, is now hoping to bring the cast back together to make a follow-up - 14 years after Con Air hit cinemas. He tells Comingsoon.net, "I'd like to do... Con Air 2... It'd be great. It's a matter of... Read more

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      Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ...
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      Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's ...

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