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Con Air

Con Air

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

1997•1h 56m•6.8/10
ActionThrillerCrime

Ratings

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6.8/10(5K)

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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Production

Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Cameron Poe

John Cusack

John Cusack

Agent Vince Larkin

John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames

Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

Mykelti Williamson

Mykelti Williamson

"Baby-O" O'Dell

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle

"Pinball" Parker

Colm Meaney

Colm Meaney

Agent Duncan Malloy

Monica Potter

Monica Potter

Tricia Poe

Landry Allbright

Landry Allbright

Casey Poe

Rachel Ticotin

Rachel Ticotin

Guard Sally Bishop

Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"

Nick Chinlund

Nick Chinlund

William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford

M.C. Gainey

M.C. Gainey

"Swamp Thing"

Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo

"Johnny-23"

Renoly Santiago

Renoly Santiago

"Sally-Can't Dance"

Steve Eastin

Steve Eastin

Guard Falzon

Brendan Kelly

Brendan Kelly

Conrad

Jesse Borrego

Jesse Borrego

Francisco Cindino

Carl Ciarfalio

Carl Ciarfalio

Con #1

Mongo Brownlee

Mongo Brownlee

Ajax

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