Air America

Spottiswoode, Roger. (Added Author). Melnick, Daniel, 1932-2009 (Added Author). Gibson, Mel. (Added Author). Downey, Robert, Jr., 1965- (Added Author). Lions Gate Home Entertainment. (Added Author). Mel Gibson, Robert Downey, Jr., Nancy Davis, David Marshall Grant, Lane Smith. (Cast).

Summary: 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 Vietnamese countryside.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Special edition.
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2004.
Copyright: ©1990

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Based on the book by Christopher Robbins. Special features: 16:9 newly remastered feature ; feature audio commentary with writer/co-producer, John Eskow ; pre-flight: storyboards and previsualization ; "Air America, flight log" ; "Return flight, revisiting Air America" ; Theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Music by Charles Gross ; music supervised by Becky Mancuso and Tim Sexton ; co-producers Allen Shapiro and John Eskow ; edited by John Bloom and Lois Freeman Fox ; director of photography Roger Deakins ; screenplay by John Eskow and Richard Rush.
Participant or Performer Note:	Mel Gibson, Robert Downey, Jr., Nancy Davis, David Marshall Grant, Lane Smith.
Target Audience Note:	Rated R.
System Details Note:	DVD; 5.1 Dolby surround audio; standard and widescreen presentation.
Language Note:	Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.