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Pushing Tin

Year:

1999

Duration:

124 min | Finland:119 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

Director:

Mike Newell

Awards:

2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1999-04-23

Filming Locations: Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $38,000,000

Opening Weekend: $3,555,032 (USA) (25 April 1999)

Gross: $8,406,264 (USA) (4 July 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Angelina Jolie

Pushing Tin

Michael Willis

John Cusack

Nick Falzone

Billy Bob Thornton

Russell Bell

Cate Blanchett

Connie Falzone

Jake Weber

Barry Plotkin

Kurt Fuller

Ed Clabes

Vicki Lewis

Tina Leary

Matt Ross

Ron Hewitt

Jerry Grayson

Leo Morton

Philip Akin

Paul

Mike O'Malley

Pete

Neil Crone

Tom

Matt Gordon

Ken

Joe Pingue

Mark

Shaun Majumder

New Controller

Dwight McFee

Veteran Controller

Robert Smith

Bob (as Rob Smith)

Catherine Lloyd Burns

Tanya Hewitt

Star Jasper

Julie Clabes

Molly Price

Crystal Plotkin

Sarah Knowlton

Beverly

Kiersten Warren

Karen

Andy Dan

Diner Cook (as Andrew Dan)

Tennyson Loeh

Diner Waitress

Michael Hyatt

Trudy

Jillian Cameron

Falzone Girl

Michael Cameron

Falzone Boy

Carolyn Scott

Mrs. Connor

Cody Jones

Timmy

Jimmy Ruderman

Scared Student

Paul Brogren

Supermarket Clerk

Gene Dinovi

Enzo Sorrento

Emile Belcourt

Tenor

Robyn Stevan

Sara

Amanda Delaney

Bodybuilder

Ferne Downey

Sorrento Customer

Joe Matheson

Announcer

Gina Clayton

Dynajet Flight Attendant

Matthew Bennett

Dynajet Steward

James Millington

Dynajet Captain (as Jim Millington)

Ramona Milano

TV Reporter

Ray Paisley

K-9 Cop

Rita Tuckett

Lady Sparta

Robert Bidaman

Near Miss Pilot (as Bob Bidaman)

Dick Callahan

TRACON Guard

Brian King

Honeymoon Man

Julia Paton

Honeymoon Woman

Jenny Parsons

Flight Attendant

John Lefebvre

Pilot

John Robinson

Co-Pilot

Todd Faithfull

Tina's Boyfriend

Richard Bauer

Pilot (voice)

Jim Codrington

Pilot (voice)

William Colgate

Pilot Voice (voice)

Craig Eldridge

Pilot Voice (voice)

Peter Graham

Pilot Voice (voice)

Peter James Howarth

Pilot Voice (voice)

Ray Kahnert

Pilot Voice (voice)

Robert B. Kennedy

Pilot Voice (voice)

Shawn Lawrence

Pilot Voice (voice)

Markus Parilo

Pilot Voice (voice)

Martin Roach

Pilot Voice (voice)

Jonathan Whittaker

Pilot Voice (voice)

John Carroll Lynch

Doctor Freeze (uncredited)

Lili Salman

Audience member (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Billy Bob Thornton's character (Russell Bell) states in the movie that he is half Irish (his father) and half Choctaw Indian (his mother). In real life, Mr. Thornton's father is of Irish ancestry, while his mother is half Choctaw Indian and half Italian.

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Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie first met on the set of this movie. They fell in love and were briefly married.

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Goofs

During the bomb threat, Ross phones Sparta Airlines' base operations in Greensboro, South Carolina. There is no Greensboro in South Carolina - Greensboro is in North Carolina. However, there is a Greenville in South Carolina, which shares its airport with Spartanburg, South Carolina, which may be origin of the name "Sparta Airlines".

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In the scene with the kids visiting the TRACON where they all work, a plane departs that doesn't call the controller and this ends up causing a near collision. The airport image on the radar scope is of Newark Liberty International (you can tell by the two lines running essentially North/South that represent the two parallel N/S runways 4L/22R and 4R/22L). However, when the scene changes to the actual plane on an actual runway departing North, you see it pass over simply the number "4" and then immediately over water. This can only be LaGuardia Airport as it is the only airport of the three in New York (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark) that has only one N/S runway (4/22 - both Newark and Kennedy have 4L/22R and 4R/22L and are marked with the "R" and "L" on them) and has water immediately to the north of it.

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At the beginning of the movie, when Ed is believed to "go down the pipes", his scope shows two Continental Airlines flights with the same number (COA1250), supposedly representing two different planes.

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Quotes

Russell Bell: Thought is the enemy.

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Nick Falzone: To hold on to sanity too tight is insane.

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Nick Falzone: [finds Connie crying in the living room] What is it?

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