In this action drama, Harrison
Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is
now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union,
Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a get-tough attitude against
both terrorists and a right-wing general and war criminal from Kazakhstan
imprisoned in Moscow, earning him few friends in the Eastern Bloc. While
flying back to the United States aboard Air Force One, Marshall and his
staff discover that one of the journalists returning with them is actually
Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman), a Kazakhstani terrorist, who hijacks the plane
with three associates and holds the president hostage — with his wife and
daughter on board. Marshall must use his strength and intelligence to keep
the terrorists at bay and devise a plan to allow his family to escape to
safety, while on the ground the vice-president (Glenn Close), the secretary
of defense (Dean Stockwell), and the attorney general (Philip Baker Hall)
grapple over what to do and how much control to take in this crisis.
Slam-bang action sequences and plot twists fly fast and furious in this
nail-biter from director Wolfgang Petersen, who previously generated
suspense under water (rather than in the air) with Das Boot.| Harrison Ford | President James Marshall |
| Gary Oldman | Ivan Korshunov |
| Glenn Close | Vice President Kathryn Bennett |
| Wendy Crewson | Grace Marshall |
| Paul Guilfoyle | Chief of Staff Lloyd Shepherd |
| William H. Macy | Major Caldwell |
| Liesel Matthews | Alice Marshall |
| Dean Stockwell | Defense Secretary Walter Dean |
| Xander R. Berkeley | Agent Gibbs |
| Bill Smitrovich | Gen. Northwood |
| Elya Baskin | Andrei Kolchak |
| David Vadim | Igor Nevsky |
| Tom Everett | NSA Adviser Jack Doherty |
| Spencer Garrett | White House Aide Thomas Lee |
| Philip Baker Hall | U.S. Attorney Gen. Ward |
| Donna Bullock | Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell |
| David Gianopolous | Agent Johnson |
| Don McManus | F-15 Leader Col. Carlton |
| Glenn Morshower | Agent Walters |
| Jürgen Prochnow | Gen. Alexander Radek |
Genre/Type - Action, Action Thriller
MPAA Rating - R
Produced by - Beacon Pictures / Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
Running time - 124 min.
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