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Mel Gibson | Gene Ryack | |
Robert Downey, Jr. | Billy Covington | |
Nancy Travis | Corinne Landreaux | |
Ken Jenkins | Maj. Donald Lemond | |
David Marshall Grant | Rob Diehl | |
Lane Smith | Sen. Davenport | |
Art La Fleur | Jack Neely | |
Ned Eisenberg | Pirelli | |
Marshall Bell | O.V. | |
David Bowe | Saunders | |
Robert Downey Jr. | Billy Covington | |
Art LaFleur | Jack Neely |
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Producer | John Eskow
Michael J. Kagan Daniel Melnick Mario Kassar |
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Writer | Christopher Robbins
John Eskow Richard Rush |
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Musician | Charles Gross
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Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. play a couple of what-the-hell flyboys flying contraband to Laos during the Vietnam War. Gibson doesn't seem to care about anything but the "guts and glory" aspects of the job, but Downey has serious questions about the moral implications of their mission. When a Laotian general expresses more concern over the wellbeing of an opium shipment than the men who are risking life and limb to fly it in, Gibson comes around to Downey's way of thinking. By film's end, Gibson is stuck in one of those character-building dilemmas so common to films of this nature: Should he deliver his cache of weaponry, or should he dump it all to rescue a bunch of refugees? — Hal Erickson |
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