Film

Con Air

1997 · 1h 56m · Action · Thriller · Crime

They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

IMDb

6.9

Rotten Tomatoes

59%

Metacritic

52

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.

Nicolas Cage

Cameron Poe

John Cusack

Agent Vince Larkin

John Malkovich

Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Ving Rhames

Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

Mykelti Williamson

"Baby-O" O'Dell

Dave Chappelle

"Pinball" Parker

Colm Meaney

Agent Duncan Malloy

Monica Potter

Tricia Poe

Landry Allbright

Casey Poe

Rachel Ticotin

Guard Sally Bishop

Steve Buscemi

Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"

Nick Chinlund

William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford

M.C. Gainey

"Swamp Thing"

Danny Trejo

"Johnny-23"

Renoly Santiago

"Sally-Can't Dance"

Steve Eastin

Guard Falzon

• Simon WestDirector
• Scott RosenbergScreenplay
• Jerry BruckheimerProducer
• Lynn Bigelow-KoufExecutive Producer
• Chad OmanExecutive Producer
• Jonathan HensleighExecutive Producer
• Jim KoufExecutive Producer
• Peter BogartExecutive Producer
• David TattersallDirector of Photography
• Mark MancinaOriginal Music Composer

Trailer

Release date

June 5, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R

Budget

$75,000,000

Revenue

$224,012,234

Genres

Action, Thriller, Crime

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