Air America

The few. The proud. The totally insane.

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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.

Keywords

airplane
vietnam war
1960s
drugs
pilot
cia
drug smuggling
refugee camp
laos
central intelligence agency (cia)

Details

Status: Released
Release date: August 10, 1990
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English, Lao
Countries: United States of America
Production: Carolco Pictures,IndieProd Company Productions
Cast: Mel Gibson,Robert Downey Jr.,Nancy Travis,Ken Jenkins,David Marshall Grant,Lane Smith,Art LaFleur,Ned Eisenberg,Marshall Bell,David Boweand 11 more
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Christopher Robbins,Richard Rush,John Eskow
Producer: Daniel Melnick,Mario Kassar,Andrew G. Vajna,Jon Jashni
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Music: Charles Gross
Budget: $35,000,000
Revenue: $57,661,269
IMDb: tt0099005