Air America

Air America (1990)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1990-08-10

Country

United States

Production

IndieProd Company Productions, Carolco Pictures

Genre

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Budget

$35 000 000

Revenue

$33 461 269

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Director

Roger Spottiswoode

Actors

Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant, Lane Smith, Art LaFleur, Ned Eisenberg, Marshall Bell, David Bowe
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Scenario

Producer

Daniel Melnick, Jon Jashni, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna

Operator

Roger Deakins

Composer

Charles Gross

Artist

Dennis Bosher, Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat

Audition

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Editing

John Bloom, Lois Freeman-Fox
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• Robert Downey Jr. decided to star in the film for two reasons: because of the promised substantial fee and the opportunity to work with Mel Gibson, whom he had seen a year earlier in Richard Donner's detective film «Lethal Weapon 2» (1989).
• Robert Downey Jr. performed the scene where his character flies under a helicopter, holding onto a rope, himself after director Roger Spottiswoode refused to use composite shots.
• PepsiCo management wanted the filmmakers to use a fictional soda brand instead of showing opium being processed at their abandoned factory. As a result, the line “I wonder if Pepsi knows what’s going on here?” was added to the scene.
• 26 aircraft were chartered from the Thai army for filming the movie.
• Filming took place from October 3, 1989, to February 10, 1990.
• Robert Downey Jr. decided to star in the film for two reasons: due to the promised substantial fee and the opportunity to work with Mel Gibson, whom he had seen a year earlier in Richard Donner’s detective film “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989).