Con Air
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Directed by	Simon West
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by	Scott Rosenberg
Starring	Nicolas Cage John Cusack John Malkovich Monica Potter Steve Buscemi Ving Rhames Colm Meaney Mykelti Williamson Nick Chinlund Rachel Ticotin Danny Trejo
Music by	Mark Mancina Trevor Rabin
Cinematography	David Tattersall
Editing by	Chris Lebenzon Steve Mirkovic Glen Scantlebury
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	June 6, 1997
Running time	115 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$75,000,000
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Con Air is a 1997 American action/thriller film by Touchstone Pictures that stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Simon West. The film borrows its title from the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, an airline used by the federal government to transport criminals across the country. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Simon West (born 1961) is an English film director. ... Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ... Scott Rosenberg is a film writer, producer and actor. ... Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and an exemplar of method acting. ... This article is about the actor. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Monica Potter (born June 30, 1971) is an American film and television actress. ... Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. ... Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ... Colm J. Meaney ( or [1], Irish for dove); (born May 30, 1953 in Dublin) is an Irish actor widely known for his role as Miles OBrien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Mykelti Williamson (born March 4, 1960 in St. ... Nicholas Chinlund, born November 18, 1961 in New York City, is an actor. ... Rachel Ticotin (born November 1, 1958) is an American film and television actress. ... Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is an American actor who has appeared in many Hollywood movies. ... Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. ... Trevor Rabin onstage with Yes, 1995 Trevor Rabin (born Trevor Charles Rabin on January 13, 1954) is a South African guitarist and film composer, best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for the progressive rock band Yes from 1983 - 1995, and since then, as a film composer. ... David Tattersall is a famous British cinematographer and director of photography, the art of selecting the right light and camera when shooting a movie. ... Christopher John Lebenzon (29 October 1953, Redwood City, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American film editor. ... Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a fictitious business name of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Inc. ... is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... This article is about the unit of time, angle and right ascension. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... Conair Aviation // Introduction Conair Aviation of Abbotsford, British Columbia is a company specializing in firefighting aircraft retrofitting and maintaing customer and company owned aircraft. ... ... Don Callis is a Canadian former professional wrestler and manager, best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling as color commentator Cyrus the Virus. ... The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and an exemplar of method acting. ... This article is about the actor. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... Simon West (born 1961) is an English film director. ... A US Marshal on a Con Air flight. ... An Airbus A380 of Emirates Airline An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. ... United States Government redirects here. ... for other uses please see Crime (disambiguation) A crime is an act that violates a political or moral law. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ...

The film featured the 1997 hit single "How Do I Live", originally performed by LeAnn Rimes and performed for the film by Trisha Yearwood. The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Song and Sound, losing to Titanic in both categories. See also: 1997 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1997 Record labels established in 1997 // January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou... A song which has charted in one of the worlds music charts, or (if a specialist genre of music) had proven popularity. ... How Do I Live is a 1997 song, written by Diane Warren, that was released originally by LeAnn Rimes, and shortly afterward by Trisha Yearwood. ... Margaret LeAnn Rimes (born August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music and pop singer and occasional songwriter. ... This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. ... The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins racked up by the Best Picture, Titanic. ... The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). ... The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ... Titanic is a 1997 disaster romance film directed, written, produced and edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ...

Plot

Cameron Poe (Cage), a highly decorated and honorably discharged United States Army Ranger returns to Mobile, Alabama from his tour of duty in the Gulf War to reunite himself with his pregnant wife, Tricia, a waitress at a local diner. Upon leaving the diner, he and his wife are assaulted by three belligerent customers, and Poe accidentally kills one of them in self-defense. He pleads guilty to manslaughter charges on the recommendation of his attorney, but receives the maximum sentence of 7-10 years because his military skills classify him as a deadly weapon. He is incarcerated in San Quentin before his daughter is born. The 75th Ranger Regiment —also known as the United States Army Rangers— is a light infantry special operations force of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); with headquarters in Fort Benning, Georgia. ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country State County Mobile Founded 1702 Incorporated 1814 Government  - Mayor Sam Jones Area  - City 412. ...

Poe maintains correspondence with his daughter throughout the duration of his sentence. During this time, elements of his personality reveal a sense of honor, nobility, and utilizing violence only as a last resort to resolving conflicts. To pass the time, Poe becomes a heavy reader, learns Spanish and origami. He develops a close friendship with fellow prisoner Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell. He is paroled on his daughter's seventh birthday, having served seven years in prison. This article is about paper folding. ...

Poe is scheduled to fly home to Alabama along with an assortment of inmates bound for a new Supermax prison being constructed in his home state. The inmates are incarcerated for a variety of extreme offenses, ranging from serial- and mass-murder to serial rape and kidnapping. Many are extremely dangerous and chained to their individual transport cages inside the C-123 airplane "Jailbird", including William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford (Nick Chinlund), Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones (Ving Rhames) and Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (Malkovich). Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons, or units within prisons, which represent the most secure levels of custody in prison systems. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ... A United States Coast Guard HC-123B Provider The C-123 Provider, originally as an assault glider aircraft for the United States Air Force by Chase Aircraft, was developed into a powered transport aircraft by the Fairchild Company, and went on to serve most notably with US forces in South... Nicholas Chinlund, born November 18, 1961 in New York City, is an actor. ... Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ...

The transfer is overseen by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (Cusack), brought in to ensure a safe and efficient transfer and DEA agent Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney), interested in planting undercover officer Sims among the officers & inmates to acquire valuable intelligence from one of the convicts on the flight. The policy on the flight allows one security firearm in the cockpit and a small arsenal in the belly of the plane, and Larkin insists that the agent board the plane unarmed. Malloy grudgingly accepts the conditions, but slips the agent a concealed firearm in his sock just before he boards the plane. DEA is an abbreviation of the following, among others: Dance Educators of America Drug Enforcement Administration (USA) TheDEA.org, a harm reduction web site. ... Colm J. Meaney ( or [1], Irish for dove); (born May 30, 1953 in Dublin) is an Irish actor widely known for his role as Miles OBrien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ...

After take-off, two of the prisoners remove hidden pins from beneath their skin. One of the inmates, Pinball Parker (Dave Chappelle), retrieves petrol and matches lodged in his throat and ignites a fellow convict, causing a distraction and allowing Cyrus and Jones the opportunity to unlock their restraints. Pinball opens Cyrus and Jones's security cages. The inmates revolt, killing or detaining the guards in the cabin and killing the co-pilot with the security firearm. Cyrus instructs the pilot to reassure the control tower below that the flight is on schedule, and the inmates take control of the plane. David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, and actor. ...

As Pinball unlocks the restraints of the undercover DEA agent he discovers his hidden gun. The agent panics and immediately takes Pinball hostage and starts making demands for a prompt landing. After being momentarily distracted by Poe's attempts to calm the situation, the agent is shot by Grissom. The plane makes its scheduled landing in Carson City for a prisoner swap, where an assortment of prisoners and guards disguised as prisoners (to stand in for prisoners killed in the takeover) are transferred off the plane. Several other convicts are transferred aboard the plane including; Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene (Steve Buscemi), a notorious serial killer, Swamp Thing (M.C. Gainey), who takes over as the pilot for the plane, and Francisco Cindino (Jessy Borrego), the mastermind of the operation, a prominent drug lord that drafted the other prisoners into the operation in exchange for asylum in "non-extradition territory". Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. ... M. C. Gainey (born 1947) is an American film and television actor. ...

For the duration of the movie Poe remains the anti-hero, thrust into a heroic stance to protect both Baby-O, who suffers from diabetes and needs a now-missing insulin shot, and one of the female guards, who is restrained and of particular interest to "Johnny 23," (Danny Trejo), an infamous serial rapist, with "23" being the number of his victims. Poe, on numerous occasions, is responsible for alerting local authorities to the dire situation of the plane and, in one sequence, writes messages to Larkin on the shirt of Pinball (died during the rush to get back on the Jailbird in Carson City after he removes the plane's transponder), who he drops out of the plane onto the streets of a crowded city. Poe was also forced to kill Billy Bedlam, when Billy was suspicious of him and he had uncovered proof that Poe was a parolee. Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is an American actor who has appeared in many Hollywood movies. ...

Eventually, the convicts land the plane on a small desert airstrip, expecting to transfer to another aircraft. However, thanks to the information Poe wrote on Pinball's shirt, Larkin rushes to the airfield, all while assembling a large group of National Guardsmen and local police officers to arrive at the airfield and intercept the convicts. Larkin and Poe discover that Cindino is planning to secretly double cross the convicts by using a small plane he has hidden in a hanger. The two foil his plans and Cindino is personally executed by Cyrus in the wreckage of his plane for his betrayal. It is at this point that Garland Greene wanders off and finds a young girl playing at a nearby trailer park. The unsuspecting girl befriends Greene and invites him to sing a song with her. Meanwhile, the prisoners manage to find the weapons cache on the transport plane. The cons quickly formulate a plan to ambush the National Guardsmen and police officers, who arrive in a large column of transport trucks and police vehicles. A bloody shootout ensues that results in many casualties for both sides.

Greene returns to the group, having not killed the young girl. Poe, having briefly met with Larkin during his search for a hypodermic needle, re-boards the plane to give Baby-O the needle, saving his life. The convicts manage to take off again with Army attack helicopters in pursuit. Poe's identity as a parolee is discovered by Nathan and Cyrus, who deduce that he had been trying to sabotage their plans the whole time. They are about to murder Poe when the helicopters attack, causing panic and mayhem on the plane. Poe uses the commotion to overtake the convicts and force Swamp Thing to land the plane. The badly damaged plane crashes on the Strip. Poe then works with Larkin in pursuing Diamond Dog, Swamp Thing, and Cyrus (who had eluded capture by hiding in the lower bunker of the plane) on a stolen fire truck. Through their teamwork they stop the truck, and Diamond Dog and Cyrus are killed. Poe reunites with his wife and daughter (having managed to preserve the stuffed rabbit), while Garland Greene eludes capture and is seen gambling in a casino. The south end of The Strip; approximately one third of the entire Strip is represented here The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is an approximately 4 mile (6. ...

Characters

• Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) - a paroled ex-convict and former Army Ranger catching a ride home aboard Con Air from San Quentin to Alabama where he will be returned to his family
• Vince Larkin (John Cusack) - a chief U.S. Marshal looking to take back the "Jailbird" with Poe's help
• Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom (John Malkovich) - a cunning, intelligent murderer and leader of the inmate uprising, who has spent 25 of his 39 years in the prison system and has been deemed a "true product of the system"
• Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones (Ving Rhames) - a black militant leader imprisoned for murdering National Rifle Association members and who acts as Cyrus's second-in-command during the uprising
• Joe 'Pinball' Parker (Dave Chappelle) - a drug addict, arsonist, and inmate responsible for distracting the guards, allowing Grissom and Jones the opportunity to initiate the uprising
• Mike 'Baby-O' O'Dell (Mykelti Williamson) - Poe's nonviolent cellmate who is transferring between prisons and is a steadfast friend and one of the few decent prisoners aboard the plane.
• William 'Billy Bedlam' Bedford (Nick Chinlund) - a mass murderer who is responsible for killing his adulterous girlfriend's entire family and classified as a "separatee" inmate along with Grissom, Jones and Greene.
• Garland 'The Marietta Mangler' Greene (Steve Buscemi) - an infamous, soft-spoken serial killer who is feared by the other inmates and revered by Grissom and imprisoned under the highest security measures, including extreme body restraints and a Hannibal Lecter-style mask; he supplies an interesting role (during the time the prisoners land at Lerner Airfield, Garland meets and comes to converse with a little girl, who remains unharmed). He also has a comical conversation with Poe, and escapes at the end of the film.
• Johnny 'Johnny-23' Baca (Danny Trejo) - a serial rapist who derives his nickname from the number of convicted rapes, although he claims to be responsible for 600 and wears a string of heart tattoos on his arm to mark each rape conviction.
• Swamp Thing (M. C. Gainey) - a Vietnam War veteran and drug smuggler imprisoned for landing a jet full of controlled substances whose pilot expertise is sought after and used to fly the "Jailbird" following its takeover
• Francisco Cindino (Jesse Borrego) - the heir of a Colombian drug cartel family financing Grissom's escape.
• Ramon 'Sally-Can't Dance' Martinez (Renoly Santiago) - an effeminate, transvestite inmate who appears sexually subservient to his fellow detainees.
• Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney) - an overzealous DEA agent looking to shoot down the plane after the death of Agent Sims.
• Guard Sally Bishop (Rachel Ticotin) - a female prison guard transporting Poe and O'Dell who remains protected by Poe during inmate takeover of the plane.
• Guard Falzon (Steve Eastin) - a prison guard who dislikes inmates and is saved by Poe (whom he had dubbed "trailer trash"), who plants Sims' tape recorder on him to alert the Carson City authorities.
• Willie Sims (Jose Zuniga) - an undercover DEA agent who is posing as an inmate to interrogate Cindino about the family drug business and killed during takeover of the plane.
• Tricia Poe (Monica Potter) - Poe's wife.
• Casey Poe (Landry Allbright) - Poe's daughter.

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Criticisms

Portrayal of diabetes

Con Air has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of diabetes mellitus. Baby-O displays some symptoms of hypoglycemia (extreme low blood sugar) rather than the hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) that he is supposed to be suffering from. He also appears to recover immediately on receiving insulin, which is unrealistic, and the degree of urgency attached to his needing treatment is generally more like that of someone with hypoglycemia (who needs urgent treatment within minutes) than someone with hyperglycemia (which takes longer to develop). The movie contributes to the dangerous misconception that the appropriate treatment for a diabetic "in crisis" is insulin; in fact, it is much more likely the patient is hypoglycemic and needs sugar; treatment with insulin is extremely dangerous in this circumstance.^[1] For the disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of very dilute urine, see diabetes insipidus. ... Hypoglycemia (hypoglycaemia in British English) is a medical term referring to a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal level of glucose (sugar) in the blood. ... In medicine, blood sugar is a term used to refer to levels of glucose in the blood. ... Hyperglycemia, hyperglycaemia, or high blood sugar is a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma. ...

Federal Jurisdiction

The entire premise of the movie revolves around key precepts of the American federal criminal justice system (Federal Bureau of Prisons incarceration and JPATS transport), even though the manslaughter offense committed by Poe, in addition to many of the other criminal offenses assigned to the other characters, are generally not under federal jurisdiction (unless there is a federal element such as occurring on a military base) and would probably have been in state court, thus no involvement with JPATS. Additionally, the 'person as deadly weapon' theme is a common urban legend; deadly weapons are by definition tools (Poe's case is also a textbook case of self-defense by proxy, which is a valid legal defense in most states). For theological federalism, see Covenant Theology. ... United States criminal justice system flowchart. ... The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a subdivision of the United States Department of Justice, and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by and/or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. ... In the U.S., a state court has jurisdiction over disputes which occur in a state. ... For other uses, see Urban legend (disambiguation). ... Look up proxy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In most litigation under the common law adversarial system the defendant, perhaps with the assistance of counsel, may allege or present defenses (or defences) in order to avoid liability, civil or criminal. ...

Furthermore, parole was abolished for all federal inmates entered into the system after November 1, 1987.^[2] The film depicts Poe as receiving parole on his daughter's seventh birthday, but given the time references of the movie (his service in the Gulf War, et cetera), parole would not have been available to a federal inmate. is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... The &c (et ceterarum, [Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland] and of others) shows that Oliver Cromwell did not renounce the English claims on France. ...

Trivia

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• In one scene of the movie when the prisoners believe that they are home-free, they play Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama while dancing in celebration. This leads to the memorable quote by Garland Greene: "Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash."

• The main action of the movie takes place on July 14, Bastille Day, when the infamous prison was destroyed in the French Revolution.

• On the DVD commentary of Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle states that he improvised most of his lines in this film.

• MaximOnline.com named the airplane crash in Con Air number-one on its list of "Most Horrific Movie Plane Crashes."

• Jerry Bruckheimer wanted to cut the final scene of Greene at the craps table in Las Vegas and end the movie with the heartfelt family reunion. The screenwriters convinced Bruckheimer to include the scene and in test screenings audiences loved it, thus it stayed.

• Three actors in this movie would all later appear in the television serial drama Lost, including M. C. Gainey.

• John Cusack, John Malkovich, and Nicolas Cage all appeared in Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman movies. Cusack was the main character in the 1999 film Being John Malkovich, with Malkovich playing himself in a supporting role; and Cage in the 2002 movie Adaptation., which is considered as the making of Being John Malkovich.

• Con Air was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America.

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Television/film references

• In The New Guy, Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) arrives at his new school in the same restrictive outfit that Garland Greene wears when he is first loaded onto the plane.
• In the movie Dogma, Chris Rock falls from the sky and hits the ground near Jay and Silent Bob. Jay remarks, "Do you think he has a message on him like that dude in Con Air?" This rouses Rock's character to reply, "Oh, God, did that suck!" He further states, "Con air, con shit!"
• It was referenced in an episode of Code Monkeys.
• One of the episodes in American Dad is titled Con Heir

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Box office

The movie Con Air was a summer blockbuster.Produced at a budget of 75m US$ ,The movie grossed $224,012,234 worldwide. The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ...

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External links

• Boxoffice Information
• Con Air at the Internet Movie Database
• Con Air at Rotten Tomatoes
• "Con Air" Plane Crash Video #1 on Maxim's "Most Horrific Plane Crashes"

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