Product DescriptionBased on the true-life CIA secret airline: Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of Air America, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnam countryside. Join Mel, Robert and the crazy crew of wartime flyers in this wild, high-flying action-comedy.
Features:
- Return Flight: Revisiting Air America
- Relive the on-set antics and production experiences in newly videotaped interviews from select members of the cast and crew as they reflect on making Air America. Also included are perspectives of historians and actual Air America pilots along with the filmmakers in a detailed discussion on the controversial assertions that the film makes about the CIA and the drug trade in Laos.
- Air America: Flight Lag
Vintage on-set interviews and B-roll from Thailand provide the witty narrative to this short "making of" featurette.
- Feature Audio Commentary With Director Roger Spottiswoode
- Pre-Flight - Storyboards and Previsualization concept art montage including three scenes of storyboard-to-film comparisons.
System Requirements:
- Running Time 113 Mine
Format: DVD MOVIE - Actors: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant
- Director: Roger Spottiswoode
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2004-07-20
- Running Time: 113 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 1990-08-10
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