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Air America

Year:
Duration:
113 min
Genres:
Action | Comedy
IMDB rate:
5.7
Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1990-08-10
Filming Locations: Santa Ventura Studios - 5301 North Ventura Avenue, Ventura, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $35,000,000
Opening Weekend: $8,064,480 (USA) (12 August 1990)
Gross: $31,053,601 (USA)SEK 4,123,359 (Sweden)
Cast
Actor
Character
Mel Gibson
Gene
Nancy Travis
Corinne Landreaux
Ken Jenkins
Major Donald Lemond
David Marshall Grant
Rob Diehl
Lane Smith
Senator Davenport
Art LaFleur
Jack Neely
Ned Eisenberg
Pirelli
Marshall Bell
O.V.
David Bowe
Saunders
Burt Kwouk
General Lu Soong
Tim Thomerson
Babo
Harvey Jason
Nino
Sinjai Plengpanit
Gene's Wife (as Sinjai Hongthai)
Natta Nantatanti
Gene's Daughter
Purin Panichpan
Gene's Son
Yanee Tramoth
Gene's Brother-in-Law (as Yani Tramod)
Chanarona Suwanpa
Kwahn
Chet Vimol
Tribal Warrior
Wasun Uttamayodhin
Nightclub Singer
Meesak Nakarat
Nightclub Singer (as Meeson Macakharat)
Ernie Lively
Truck Driver
Burke Byrnes
Recruiter
Greg Kean
D.J.
Roger Welty
Ambassador
John Ladalski
Air America Pilot (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Himself (uncredited)
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Trivia
The film was made and released about eleven years after the source non-fiction book by Christopher Robbins had been first published in 1979. The book was released about ten years after the events depicted in it had occurred in 1969. The book was one of several published works by the author on the film's subject area.
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Veteran stunt fliers aged around sixty years of age performed some more of the more difficult and dangerous flying stunts seen in the film.
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The film was withdrawn from more than one hundred theaters in Germany when the Guld War started in January 1991.
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Goofs
When Gene goes picks up Billy in the helicopter, he is piloting from his left side. When gen and Billy land at the airport in the next shot, Gene is on his right side of the cockpit.
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The film is set in 1969, but a Ford Pinto (first sold in 1970) is seen in the car accident near the beginning.
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When Billy is haranguing the truck driver on the freeway, the drive hears Billy over the radio. However, we clearly here the truck driver over the helicopter's radio. It would be nearly impossible to hear the truck driver over the helicopter noise, even standing next to him. Billy wouldn't be able to hear him at all in cockpit, much less have his microphone pick up the driver's cursing with almost no background noise.
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Quotes
Rob: I have to have coffee with Davenport tomorrow, what should I do then? I'll tell you what, I'll take him to the White Rose, I'll get him blown...
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Billy Covington: What the f*** are you doing here, man? Do you believe in this war?
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Billy Covington: Gene, you cant sell the plane! It's government property!
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Photos from cast
Robert Downey Jr. Michael Dudikoff
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