Air America [Special Edition] [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. play a couple of what-the-hell flyboys flying contraband to Laos during the Vietnam War. Gibson doesn't seem to care about anything but the "guts and glory" aspects of the job, but Downey has serious questions about the moral implications of their mission. When a Laotian general expresses more concern over the wellbeing of an opium shipment than the men who are risking life and limb to fly it in, Gibson comes around to Downey's way of thinking. By film's end, Gibson is stuck in one of those character-building dilemmas so common to films of this nature: should he deliver his cache of weaponry, or should he dump it all to rescue a bunch of refugees? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Features:
  • Audio Commentary by Co-Writer/Co-Producer John Eskow
  • "Pre-Flight: The Storyboards of Air America" Featurette
  • "Flight Log" Featurette
  • "Return Flight: Revisiting Air America" Retrospective Featurette
  • Theatrical Trailer

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Mel Gibson - Gene Ryack
       Robert Downey, Jr. - Billy Covington
       Nancy Travis - Corinne Landreaux
       Ken Jenkins - Maj. Donald Lemond
       David Marshall Grant - Rob Diehl
       Lane Smith - Sen. Davenport
       Art La Fleur - Jack Neely
       Ned Eisenberg - Pirelli
       Marshall Bell - O.V.
       David Bowe - Saunders
       Burt Kwouk - Gen. Lu Soong
       Tim Thomerson - Babo
       Burke Byrnes - Recruiter

• Director:

  Roger Spottiswoode

• Producer:

  Daniel Melnick

• Screenwriter:

  John Eskow, Richard Rush

• Book Author:

  Christopher Robbins

• Cinematographer:

  Roger Deakins

• Composer (Music Score):

  Charles Gross

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Becky Mancuso, Timothy R. Sexton

• Editor:

  John Bloom, Lois Freeman-Fox

• Production Designer:

  Allan Cameron

• Art Director:

  Tony Reading, Steve Spence

• Co-producer:

  John Eskow, Allen Shapiro

• Executive Producer:

  Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna

• Set Designer:

  Fred Carter

• Costume Designer:

  John Mollo

• Makeup:

  Lois Burwell

• Special Effects:

  Roy Fields, George Gibbs

• Stunts:

  Vic Armstrong

• Casting:

  Jane Jenkins, Janet Hirshenson

• Line Producer:

  Michael J. Kagan