Product Details

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Steve Eastin
• Directors: David Tattersall, Simon West
• Writers: Scott Rosenberg
• Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R Restricted

From the hit-making producer of THE ROCK and CRIMSON TIDEcomes the hard-hitting blockbuster CON AIR, starring Academy Award(R)-winnerNicolas Cage (LEAVING LAS VEGAS, Best Actor, 1995; THE ROCK), John Cusack(GROSSE POINTE BLANK), and John Malkovich (IN THE LINE OF FIRE)! A prisonparolee (Cage) — on his way to freedom — faces impossible odds when themaximum security transport plane he’s on is skyjacked by the most viciouscriminals in the country … led by the infamous murderer Cyrus “The Virus”Grissom (Malkovich)! Buckle up and hang on tight as explosive high-flyingaction soars to new heights … and delivers high-caliber motion pictureentertainment! Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblownaction formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer(Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even afterSimpson’s druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming’s expos, High Concept: DonSimpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, for more about that.) NicolasCage, sporting a disconcerting mane of hair, is a wrongly convicted prisoneron a transport plane with a bunch of infamously psychopathic criminals,including head creep Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), black militant DiamondDog (Ving Rhames), and serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi, making themost of his pallid, rodent-like qualities). Naturally, the convicts take overthe plane; meanwhile, on the ground, a U.S. marshal (John Cusack) and a DEAagent (Colm Meaney) try to figure out what to do. As is the postmodern way,the movie displays a self-consciously ironic awareness that its story andcharacters are really just excuses for a high-tech cinematic thrill ride. Bestidea: the filmmakers persuaded the owners of the legendary Sands Hotel in LasVegas to let them help out with the structure’s demolition by crashing theirplane into it. –Jim Emerson