Con Air
“They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.”
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.
Genres
Action, Thriller, Crime
Studio
Touchstone Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Con Air performed
Budget
$75.0M
Worldwide Gross
$224.0M
Gross Profit
$149.0M
Return
3.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$30M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Cameron Poe
Nicolas Cage
Cameron Poe
Agent Vince Larkin
John Cusack
Agent Vince Larkin
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
John Malkovich
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
Ving Rhames
Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
"Baby-O" O'Dell
Mykelti Williamson
"Baby-O" O'Dell
"Pinball" Parker
Dave Chappelle
"Pinball" Parker
Agent Duncan Malloy
Colm Meaney
Agent Duncan Malloy
Tricia Poe
Monica Potter
Tricia Poe
Casey Poe
Landry Allbright
Casey Poe
Guard Sally Bishop
Rachel Ticotin
Guard Sally Bishop
Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"
Steve Buscemi
Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"
William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford
Nick Chinlund
William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford
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