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Rating: 6 stars

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Airplane hijack

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Turbulence (1997)

Directed by Robert Butler

Action | Crime | Thriller

Overview

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.

Rated R | Length 100 minutes

Actors

Ray Liotta | Lauren Holly | Brendan Gleeson | Héctor Elizondo | Rachel Ticotin | Ben Cross | Catherine Hicks | Jeffrey DeMunn | John Finn | Heidi Kling | J. Kenneth Campbell | James MacDonald | Grand L. Bush | Michael Harney | Don Dowe | Gordy Owens | Richard Hoyt-Miller | Michael Francis Kelly | Alan Bergmann | Danna Hansen | R.J. Knoll | Sondra Spriggs | Garrett M. Brown | Darryl Theirse | Fritz Mashimo | Tom Todoroff | Jeffrey Joseph | Dennis Redfield | Malachy McCourt | Gary Rodriguez | William H. Burton Jr. | Callie Thorne | John Elsen | Bill Cross | Tannis Benedict | Scott Gurney | Cooper Huckabee | Kevin O'Rourke | Scott Lawrence | Lara Bierner | Charles Gemmill | Paxton Culpepper | Billy Malone | George Cheung

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I don’t know how I’ve not seen this until now. I even have seen the “making-of” footage of the plane model set they used. When the third film, Heavy Metal, was added to Instawatch (then mysteriously quickly removed), I placed on a hold this flick.

Fired it up and was pleasantly surprised to see Lauren Holly (what ever happened to her?!) and Brendan Gleeson. Once again Ray Liotta is great doing Ray Liotta. Overall this is a solid airplane thriller that predated CON AIR by a few months. Not sure why this doesn’t have better ratings but it’s very entertaining despite some of the silliness.

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