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10 Action Movies That Copied the Die Hard Formula
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Con Air
- Theatrical - Wide 1997-06-06
- Cast Nicolas Cage John Cusack John Malkovich Ving Rhames Mykelti Williamson
- Directed by Simon West
- Written by Scott Rosenberg
Box Office Gross:
$224,012,234
Running Time:
116 minutes
Language:
English
Production Company:
Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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Synopsis
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.... See more 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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Nicolas Cage loves Con Air and Godzilla, misses John Woo and would maybe do Face/Off 2
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Nicolas Cage still appreciates a lot of his 90s action work and loves the idea of people enjoying them as comfort movies.
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