• Release Date: 2009 06 02
• Genre: Action
• Artist Name: Elya Baskin, Xander Berkeley, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Tom Everett, Harrison Ford, David Gianopoulos, Philip Baker Hall, William H. Macy, Don McManus, Glenn Morshower, Gary Oldman, Jürgen Prochnow, Bill Smitrovich, Dean Stockwell, David Vadim, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, Spencer Garrett, Donna Bullock
• Director: Wolfgang Petersen
• AMG Rating:
• MPAA Rating: R
• Category: Feature Films
• Cautions: Violence, Children in Peril, Adult Situations
• Year: 1997
• Running Time: 124
• Movie Country of Origin: USA
• Available Language: English
• Subtitles: Eng/Fre
  

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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Action

Race Against Time, Terrorism, Hijackings, Hostage Situations, Under Siege, Daring Rescues

Tense, Claustrophobic, Forceful, Ominous, Rousing

DVD Features

• Director's commentary

DVD Chapters

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• 1997--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Rick Kline-Nominee
• 1997--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Keith A. Wester-Nominee
• 1997--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Richard Francis-Bruce-Nominee
• 1997--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Paul Massey-Nominee
• 1997--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Doug Hemphill-Nominee