Air America
Carolco Pictures (1990)
Action, Comedy
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#605
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IMDB   5.6
1 hr 53 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   R
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
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Producer John Eskow
Michael J. Kagan
Daniel Melnick
Mario Kassar
Writer Christopher Robbins
John Eskow
Richard Rush
Musician Charles Gross


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
Edition Details
Edition Special Edition
Distributor Lions Gate
Chapters 36
Release Date 2002
Packaging Snap Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 2.35:1 Color
Subtitles Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
Layers Dual Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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