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Con Air

Con Air

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 5, 1997

Runtime

1h 56m

Genres

Action, Thriller, Crime

User Score

67%

Original Title

Con Air

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Director

Simon West

Budget

$75,000,000

Revenue

$224,012,234

Description

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.