- StatusReleased
- Release Date1997-06-05
- Runtime116 minutes
- TaglineThey were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.
- Revenue224,012,234$
- GenreAction, Thriller, Crime
- Production
CompaniesTouchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films - Budget75,000,000$
Movie Overview
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.
Casts
Nicolas Cage
John Cusack
John Malkovich
Ving Rhames
Mykelti Williamson
Dave Chappelle
Colm Meaney
Monica Potter
Landry Allbright
Rachel Ticotin
Steve Buscemi
Nick Chinlund
M.C. Gainey
Danny Trejo
Renoly Santiago
Steve Eastin
Brendan Kelly
Jesse Borrego
Carl Ciarfalio
Mongo Brownlee
José Zúñiga
Ned Bellamy
John Marshall Jones
John Roselius
Fredric Lehne
Dylan Haggerty
Dan Bell
Bob Stephenson
Scott Ditty
Tommy Bush
Angela Featherstone
Doug Hutchison
Jeris Poindexter
David Ramsey
Conrad Goode
Emilio Rivera
Mario Roberts
Ty Granderson Jones
Earl Billings
Greg Collins
Billy Devlin
Mark Ginther
Joseph Patrick Kelly
Don S. Davis
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Eddie Perez
Brian Hayes Currie
Joey Miyashima
Scott Burkholder
Kevin Cooney
