Overview:
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.| Status: | Released (1990-08-10) |
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| Awards: | 1 nomination |
| BoxOffice: | $31,053,601 |
| Screen: | Christopher Robbins, John Eskow, Richard Rush |
| Productions: | IndieProd Company Productions, Carolco Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, |
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Casts
- 2461: Mel Gibson - Gene Ryack
- 3223: Robert Downey Jr. - Billy Covington
- 18331: Nancy Travis - Corinne Landreaux
- 38570: Ken Jenkins - Major Donald Lemond
- 24535: David Marshall Grant - Rob Diehl
- 65019: Lane Smith - Senator Davenport
- 44792: Art LaFleur - Jack Neely
Crews
- 1120158: Christopher Robbins - Novel - Writing
- 14942: Daniel Melnick - Producer - Production
- 53009: Lois Freeman-Fox - Editor - Editing
- 1724: Roger Spottiswoode - Director - Directing
- 6491: John Bloom - Editor - Editing
- 21806: Richard Rush - Screenplay - Writing
- 7732: Allan Cameron - Production Design - Art
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When "Billy" (Robert Downey Jr.) loses his pilot's licence after a lively misdemeanour, he finds himself working in war-torn Laos with the team at "Air America". This is a CIA-backed operation consisting of a disparate bunch of pilots whose job it is to fly in supplies to local villa ....
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I have a special love for this film, if for no other reason that the bulk of my college experience was spent on the cold war, the alphabet soup of PBSUCCESS, MKULTRA, JMWAVE, PAPERCLIP, COLDFEET, MKOFTEN, The Phoenix Program, ARTICHOKE, and my favorite (just because of how bad it sou ....
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