Air Force One - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1997) Starring Harrison Ford; Gary Oldman & Glenn Close; Directed by Wolfgang Petersen; Sony Pictures : OLDIES.com

DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Features:

Audio Commentary - Wolfgang Petersen - Director
Trailer - Original Theatrical

Interactive Features:

Scene Access

Entertainment Reviews:

Box Office - 09/01/1997

"...Superb acting from Harrison Ford..."

USA Today - 07/25/1997

"...Viscerally juicy....The movie is effectively cast..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

Entertainment Weekly - 07/25/1997

"...[A] slyly witty and inspiring spectacle of the chief executive as action renegade..."

New York Times - 07/25/1997

"...[Close] acts with appealing brusqueness and precision....This is a meat-and-potatoes American thriller that means business..."

Los Angeles Times - 07/25/1997

"...AIR FORCE ONE is at once vigorous and old-fashioned, a piece of expertly crafted entertainment that gets the job done with skill and panache..."

Product Description:

President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is one of the most respected leaders in the history of America. When Kazakhstanian separatists commit atrocities on their own people, Marshall authorizes a guerrilla mission to take their leader, General Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), into custody and restore the democratic regime. In his speech afterward, the president vows never to let America hesitate again when dealing with terrorists. However, that's before a group of them, led by the ruthless Korchunov (Gary Oldman) take over his own flight on Air Force One, with his wife and young daughter also on board. President Marshall, a decorated Vietnam veteran, becomes a one-man vigilante force in his efforts to free his family and the other hostages, retake the plane, and thwart the hijackers. Director Wolfgang Petersen's thrilling film is supported by an excellent ensemble cast, which includes William H. Macy, Philip Baker Hall, and Glenn Close as Kathryn Bennett, the vice president who must hold the Cabinet together in Marshall's absence.

Plot Synopsis:

En route from Russia to the United States on Air Force One, President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), his wife and daughter, and other passengers are taken hostage by a gang of wild-eyed Kazakhstanian separatist radicals led by the cunning Korchunov (Gary Oldman). Fortunately, this Chief Executive is a decorated Vietnam vet who knows his way around hand-to-hand combat and firearms. Bargain? Never! As the president fights to subdue the hijackers and ground the plane, his Cabinet fights to keep the nation together.

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Exerpts:

"Get off my plane." -- President Marshall (Harrison Ford) to Korchunov (Gary Oldman)

Production Notes:

Theatrical release: July 25, 1997.
The film was shot with the cooperation of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Army, and the National Guard.
The production was allowed to use CNN's actual Los Angeles studio for its mock CNN segments.
Director Wolfgang Petersen again uses actor Jurgen Prochnow--the German U-boat captain in his film DAS BOOT--this time as Kazakhstan leader Radek.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman & Glenn Close
Directed by		Wolfgang Petersen
Produced by		Marc Abraham, Armyan Bernstein, Thomas A. Bliss, Gil Gagnon, Gail Katz, Peter Kohn, David Lester, Mary Montiforte, Wolfgang Petersen, Jonathan Shestack & Michael Sweeney
Edited by		Richard Francis-Bruce
Screenwriting by		Andrew W. Marlowe
Composition by		Jerry Goldsmith & Joel McNeely
Costume Designer by		Erica Edell Phillips
Director of Photography		Michael Ballhaus
Production Design by		William Sandell
Performer		Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Paul Guilfoyle, Xander Berkeley, Bill Smitrovich, Elya Baskin, David Vadim, Tom Everett, Michael Ray Miller, Spencer Garrett, Carl Weintraub, Philip Baker Hall, Elester Latham, Donna Bullock, Levani, Don McManus, Andrew Divoff, Jürgen Prochnow, Ilia Volokh, Chris Howell, Albert Owens, Willard Pugh, Michael Monks, Alan Woolf, Messiri Freeman, Thomas Crawford, Fenton Lawless, Dan Shor, David Gianopoulos, Richard Doyle & Duke Miglin