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Conair

Con Air (1997) is an American action/thriller movie by Touchstone Pictures, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Simon West. more...

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The film is set aboard, and borrows its title from, the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, an airline used by the government to transport criminals across the country.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Song and Sound, losing to Titanic in both categories.

Plot

Cameron Poe, a United States Army Ranger who has just finished his tour of service in Operation Desert Storm and has received an honorable discharge, returns home to his pregnant wife, a waitress at a local diner. After an altercation with three belligerent customers, he kills a man in self-defense. He is found guilty of manslaughter and receives a sentence of 7-10 years. He is incarcerated before his daughter is born.

Poe maintains correspondence with his daughter throughout the term of his sentence. During this time, elements of his personality arise that reveal his sense of honor, nobility, and violence as a last resort to resolving conflicts. He also strikes up a friendship with fellow prisoner Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell. Eventually, he is paroled, on his daughter's seventh birthday, having served seven years in prison.

Poe is scheduled to fly home to Alabama along with an assortment of inmates bound for a new Supermax prison being constructed in his home state. The transfer is overseen by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack) who is brought in to ensure a safe and efficient transfer of a number of super criminals. These inmates are incarcerated for a variety of extreme offenses, ranging from serial and mass murder to a variety of petty offenses. The guards are overpowered and the plane is summarily hijacked by the more violent inmates, led by ruthless malefactor Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) being paid by drug lord and fellow prisoner Francisco Cindino, where they intend to fly to South America and settle into a country that does not maintain an extradition treaty with the United States.

For the duration of the movie Poe remains the anti-hero, thrust into a heroic stance to protect both Baby-O, who suffers from diabetes and needs a now-missing insulin shot, and one of the female guards, who is restrained and of particular interest to "Johnny 23," an infamous serial rapist. On numerous occasions he is responsible for alerting local authorities to the dire situation of the plane and, in one sequence, writing messages to Larkin on the shirt of a dead inmate, which he drops out of the plane onto the streets of a crowded city. He is successful in concealing his identity until the end of the film, where he actively resists the inmates on the plane and aids Larkin on a ground chase through Las Vegas.