Air America1990

Genre: Action ,  Comedy
Duration: 109
Country: USA

Credits

Director
Roger Spottiswoode

Acters

Mel Gibson (Gene)
Robert Downey Jr. (Billy)
Nancy Travis (Corinne Landreaux)
Ken Jenkins (Major Donald Lemond)
David Marshall Grant (Rob Diehl)
Lane Smith (Senator Davenport)

Description

It was someone else’s war. But it was their sky.
In 1969, innocuous airline upstart Air America is, as a matter of fact, a CIA front running covert operations, supply drops, smuggling runs, and all manner of naughtiness into and out of Laos-a place that President Richard Nixon assures the world Americans are not, as a matter of fact, in.
Given the dangerous work, Air America needs pilots, so they recruit reckless helicopter pilot Billy Covington who has a hard time adapting to the lifestyle. His mentor, Gene Ryack, has seen it all, and Covington soon learns that Air America has many functions-including making Ryack a tidy profit on the side smuggling guns and weapons into Laos. However, when a Senator arrives on a fact-finding mission from the United States, the entire Air America operation is in jeopardy and the CIA needs to find a patsy, fast. It wouldn’t be fetching for the CIA to be caught in cahoots with a local warlord smuggling heroin, now would it? It’s perfect timing-a new pilot just arrived to frame the crime on!
“Spectacular action sequences and engaging performances by Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr make this big-budgeter entertaining and provocative.” – Variety
“Director, Roger Spottiswoode gives the film a sumptuous look that captures Vietnam Laos in both beautiful realism and harsher surroundings, in addition offering some superb aerial photography and stunts that include an amazing crash landing sequence that I have never seen bettered since on film.” – The Digital Fix

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