Con Air
They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.
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.
- Director
- Simon West
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $224M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
34 billed performers
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Movie DNA
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What It's About
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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.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Con Air returned 3.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $75M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $224M
- Release date
- Jun 5, 1997
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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