Movie
Con Air
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1997-06-05
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Cameron Poe
- John Cusack as Agent Vince Larkin
- John Malkovich as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
- Ving Rhames as Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
- Mykelti Williamson as "Baby-O" O'Dell
- Dave Chappelle as "Pinball" Parker
- Colm Meaney as Agent Duncan Malloy
- Monica Potter as Tricia Poe
- Landry Allbright as Casey Poe
- Rachel Ticotin as Guard Sally Bishop
- Steve Buscemi as Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"
- Nick Chinlund as William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford
Crew
- Simon West - Director
- Scott Rosenberg - Screenplay
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