"Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you."

Just-paroled army ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is headed back to his wife (Monica Potter), but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" with some of the worst criminals living. Along with Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames) and Baby-O (Mykelti Williamson), genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) unleashes a violent escape plot in mid-flight. Secretly working with U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin (John Cusack), Poe tries to foil Grissom's plan. With Steve Buscemi, Colm Meaney, Dave Chappelle, Danny Trejo.

"The story of a man just trying to get home. The role that turned Nic Cage into an inimitable on-screen hero. An exercise in excess, explosions and extremely silly hair. Yes, we're talking about Con Air, Simon West's gloriously chaotic, impeccably cast, testosterone-fuelled 1997 action classic." (Empire Magazine)

"[Scott] Rosenberg's sarcastic, tough-guy dialogue is full of lean-and-mean one-liners, and the superbly cast actors know how to milk them for all they're worth." (Variety)

"All of the principals normally work in films more interesting and human than this one, which gives Con Air a touch of the subversive and turns it into a big-budget lark." (New York Times)

"The movie is essentially a series of quick setups, brisk dialogue and elaborate action sequences." (Roger Ebert)

Friday, May 12
Doors 8:15 pm | Movie 8:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

CON AIR (Simon West, 1997 / 18A / 115 mins) Newly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.