Air America (1990)

Movie Details

Original Title Air America

Original Language EN

Budget $35,000,000

Revenue $57,661,269

Status Released

Popularity 2.1

Cast

Mel Gibson

Gene Ryack

Popularity: 4.3

Robert Downey Jr.

Billy Covington

Popularity: 4.6

Nancy Travis

Corinne Landreaux

Popularity: 14.5

Ken Jenkins

Major Donald Lemond

Popularity: 1.3

David Marshall Grant

Rob Diehl

Popularity: 3.9

Lane Smith

Senator Davenport

Popularity: 0.6

Art LaFleur

Jack Neely

Popularity: 8.6

Ned Eisenberg

Pirelli

Popularity: 0.9

Marshall Bell

O.V.

Popularity: 6.2

David Bowe

Saunders

Popularity: 10.9

Burt Kwouk

General Lu Soong

Popularity: 8.0

Tim Thomerson

Babo

Popularity: 2.3

Key Crew

Director Roger Spottiswoode

Screenplay Richard Rush, John Eskow

Editor John Bloom, Lois Freeman-Fox

Producer Daniel Melnick, Jon Jashni

Executive Producer Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna

Production

IndieProd Company Productions

Carolco Pictures

Videos & Trailers

Official Trailer

Teaser

Official 4K Restoration Trailer

Trailer

Air America Trailer

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

vietnam war central intelligence agency (cia) airplane drug smuggling refugee camp pilot laos drugs 1960s

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 6/10

Nov 14, 2022

When "Billy" (Robert Downey Jr.) loses his pilot's licence after a lively misdemeanour, he finds himself working in war-torn Laos with the team at "Air America". This is a CIA-backed operation consisting of a disparate bunch of pilots whose job it is to fly in supplies to local villages. It's there ... Read more

GenerationofSwine 10/10

Jan 12, 2023

I have a special love for this film, if for no other reason that the bulk of my college experience was spent on the cold war, the alphabet soup of PBSUCCESS, MKULTRA, JMWAVE, PAPERCLIP, COLDFEET, MKOFTEN, The Phoenix Program, ARTICHOKE, and my favorite (just because of how bad it sounds) Midnight Cl ... Read more

JPV852 6/10

Aug 11, 2025

Entertaining enough action-war movie thanks to the charisma of both Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. The film also has some solid action scenes and direction, to go along with Roger Deakins's cinematography. From what I read about this, doesn't seem like many had fun making the movie, including Deak ... Read more