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Con Air

year 1997decade 90sdirector Simon Westgenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Shea Serranohost Chris Ryan
All 15 categories

Most Rewatchable Scene · 16:19

Cusack's scouting-report introduction of the inmates

Candidates open with the rainstorm fight in which Nick Cage kills the drunk; the whole fight makes one host mad every time because the lawyer, the guy from Miami Vice, gives terrible advice to plead guilty and it comes out as ten years. The hosts debate going not guilty unless a deal is agreed with the judge, and conclude that Cameron Poe is kind of a dumbass who should have just got in the car and later got off the plane rather than stay for his diabetic buddy and his insulin.

Cusack's scouting report for the inmates is phenomenal; a host wishes more graphics and background had flashed up for each guy, Creed-style, six minutes long, and would have watched it forever.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:00:42

"put the bunny back in the box"

Nominees: 'put the bunny back in the box'; Cyrus's 'Define irony. A bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song by a band that died in a car crash'; and 'Sorry, boss. There's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you', which gets a vote because it sounds like something one of the hosts has said to another human being in his life.

The film

Con Air (1997)

Directed by Simon West · Drama

115 minutes

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Cast

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Nicolas Cage Cameron Poe, a paroled former Army Ranger who works with the authorities to retake the titular flight.
John Cusack U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin, who discovers Poe's role in retaking the plane.
John Malkovich Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, a highly intelligent career criminal and mastermind of the escape plot.
Ving Rhames Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones, a black nationalist convicted of terrorism and Grissom's second-in-command.
Mykelti Williamson Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell, Poe's diabetic friend and cellmate.
Rachel Ticotin Officer Sally Bishop, the flight's only female corrections officer who is protected by Poe after being attacked by Johnny 23.
Monica Potter Tricia Poe, Cameron Poe's wife.
Landry Allbright Casey Poe, Cameron Poe's seven-year-old daughter.
Colm Meaney DEA Agent Duncan Malloy
Steve Buscemi Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene, a notorious serial killer . Director Simon West and Buscemi based the character on real-life serial killers Ed Gein , Ted Bundy , Charles Manson , Jeffrey Dahmer , John Wayne Gacy and Edmund Kemper .
Nick Chinlund William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford, a mass murderer convicted for killing his unfaithful ex-wife's family .
Danny Trejo John "Johnny 23" Baca, a serial rapist , nicknamed for his number of sex offense convictions.
Dave Chappelle Joe "Pinball" Parker, a low-level inmate convicted of heroin, armed robbery, and arson charges.
M.C. Gainey Earl "Swamp Thing" Williams, a convict with aviation expertise who serves as Cyrus' pilot.
Jesse Borrego Francisco Cindino, a treacherous South American drug baron and terrorist who helps Grissom (offscreen) plot the hijacking. Borrego studied Colombian narcoterrorist kingpin Pablo Escobar for the portrayal of this character.
Renoly Santiago (credited "Renoly") as Ramon "Sally-Can't Dance" Martinez, a cross-dressing inmate convicted of narcotics charges.
Brendan Kelly Conrad
John Roselius Deputy Marshal Skip Devers.
Jose Zuniga DEA Agent Willie Sims
Steve Eastin Officer Falzon, the leader of corrections officers on board the flight.
Kevin Gage Billy Joe, a drunken bar patron whom Poe kills in self-defense.
Dabbs Greer Old Man under Truck, Lerner Airfield

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