Air America (1990)

Genre(s): Action/Comedy

Runtime: 113min. (1h. 53min.)

Language: English

My rating: Not Yet Rated

seen

Cast: (27 - show/hide all)

Mel Gibson	...	Gene Ryack
Robert Downey Jr.	...	Billy Covington
Nancy Travis	...	Corinne Landreaux
Ken Jenkins	...	Major Donald Lemond
David Marshall Grant	...	Rob Diehl
Lane Smith	...	Senator Davenport
Art LaFleur	...	Jack Neely
Ned Eisenberg	...	Nick Pirelli
Marshall Bell	...	Q.V.
David Bowe	...	Saunders
Burt Kwouk	...	General Lu Soong
Tim Thomerson	...	Babo
Harvey Jason	...	Nino
Sinjai Plengpanit	...	May Ling
Natta Nantatanti	...	Gene's Daughter
Purin Panichpan	...	Gene's Son
Yanee Tramoth	...	Gene's Brother-in-Law
Chanarona Suwanpa	...	Kwaka
Chet Vimol	...	Tribal Warrior
Wasun Uttamayodhin	...	Nightclub Singer
Meeson Macakharat	...	Nightclub Singer
Ernie Lively	...	Truck Driver - Rubio Moving & Hauling
Burke Byrnes	...	Recruiter
Greg Kean	...	Steve - DeeJay for KLCA 1080 AM
Roger Welty	...	Ambassador Barlow
Michael Dudikoff	...	General Lee
John Ladalski	...	Air America Pilot

Crew:

Roger Spottiswoode	...	Direction
Richard Rush John Eskow	...	Script
Charles Gross	...	Music

Plot:

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 into it, 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.