Con Air
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- This article is about Con Air, the movie. For the airline, see Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System.
- Cyrus The Virus redirects here. For the professional wrestler who used this name, see Don Callis.
Con Air (1997) is an action/thriller movie by Touchstone Pictures, starring David Chappelle, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Colm Meaney, Ving Rhames, Rachel Ticotin, Monica Potter and Renoly Santiago. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Simon West.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Song and Sound, losing to Titanic in both categories.
Plot
The initial scene shows Cameron Poe (Cage), a former U.S. Army Ranger who was just honorably discharged, killing a man to defend his pregnant wife. He pleads guilty to manslaughter charges, but the judge gives him the maximum sentence of 7-10 years anyway due to his combat training making him a "lethal weapon". He is incarcerated before his daughter is born, and the opening credits involve his correspondence with his wife and daughter over the next seven years, with brief snippets of his life in prison (including a riot, in which he does not participate) and his friendship with fellow prisoner and eventual bunkmate, Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell.
The bulk of the movie is set seven years later, when he is about to be paroled (on his daughter's seventh birthday). He is put on a flight with inmates being transferred to a new Supermax prison being built in his native Alabama. The plane is hijacked by the ruthless malefactor Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (Malkovich) and several other prisoners, on the payroll of drug lord and fellow transfer prisoner Francisco Cindino. The rest of the story involves U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (Cusack) trying to get the plane back in one piece and the prisoners back in prison; Poe trying to stay alive and aid Larkin, while saving the guards of the plane and the diabetic Baby-O; other law enforcement officers (including Meaney) trying to shoot the plane down; and Cyrus the Virus trying to get the plane to its rendezvous point so that he and the other hijackers can get to South America and non-extradition territory.
Box office
| US Gross Domestic Takings | US$ 101,117,573 |
| Other International Takings | 2,894,661 |
| Gross Worldwide Takings | 4,012,234 |
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