DIRECTED BY: Roger Spottiswoode

WRITTEN BY: Christopher Robbins (novel), John Eskow (screenplay)

MEL GIBSON AS: Gene Ryack

GENRE: Action, Comedy

TAGLINES:

- The Few. The Proud. The Totally Insane.

- Anything. Anywhere. Anytime.

PLOT SUMMARY:

Billy (Robert Downey Jr.) is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, “I’m used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don’t even make the top ten.” There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots. –IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

1990 August 10 (United States)
1990 August 16 (Australia)
1990 September 20 (Argentina)
1990 October – (Brazil)
1990 November 2 (Finland)
1990 November 14 (France)
1990 November 20 (Philippines)
1990 December 14 (Netherlands)
1991 January 4 (United Kingdom)
1991 January 10 (Germany)
1991 March 29 (Sweden)

BOX OFFICE GROSS:

United States: $29,219,030

FILMING LOCATIONS:

Chaing Mai, Thailand; United States; Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, England.

TRIVIA:

- The film is dedicated to second assistant director Mike Katzin.

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