Pushing Tin
- Original title
- Pushing Tin
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 123 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- John Cusack
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Cate Blanchett
- Angelina Jolie
- Jake Weber
- Kurt Fuller
- Vicki Lewis
- Matt Ross
- Jerry Grayson
- Michael Willis
- Philip Akin
- John Carroll Lynch
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Planes
- Synopsis
- Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is a confident, accomplished air traffic controller whose life is turned upside down when drifter Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) joins his tight-knit work team and threatens to drive him insane. Stakes are high and pressure is constant in the world of air traffic control, making the line between excellence and failure dangerously thin. While jokes provide the team of controllers with an important release from their stressful occupation, a narrow division exists between teasing and animosity.
- Critics' reviews
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"Pushing Tin manages to waste an excellent cast, a glossy production and what initially seems to be a bright, funny script"
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"A mess, but for the most part it's a fascinating mess. It helps that it boasts great acting all around"
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"Unfortunately, story's tension climaxes a half-hour before the film is over, and thereafter dissipates much of the charge and good will generated up to that point."
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"It's frustrating to see such a promising premise, and such a delightful cast, wasted."
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