Con Air poster
Screenplay Scott Rosenberg
Director Simon West

Con Air

Tagline: They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

Release Date: 1997-06-05

Duration: 116 minutes

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. 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.

Casting

  • Nicolas Cage
    Cameron Poe
  • John Cusack
    Agent Vince Larkin
  • Danny Trejo
    "Johnny-23"
  • Ving Rhames
    Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
  • Steve Buscemi
    Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"
  • Monica Potter
    Tricia Poe
  • Rachel Ticotin
    Guard Sally Bishop
  • Colm Meaney
    Agent Duncan Malloy
  • David Ramsey
    Londell
  • Jesse Borrego
    Francisco Cindino