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Overview

User Rating:
4.2/10   2,547 votes
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Director:
David Green
Writers (WGA):
Step Tyner (story) &
John K. Swensson (story) ...
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Release Date:
25 May 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure more
Tagline:
The best just got better.
Plot:
The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Truly wretched more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nicolas Cage ... Jake Preston

Tommy Lee Jones ... Brad Little

Sean Young ... Billie Lee Guthrie
Bryan Kestner ... Breaker

Illana Diamant ... Sharon Geller (as Illana Shoshan)

Dale Dye ... A.K. McNeil
Mary Ellen Trainor ... Janet Little
J.A. Preston ... General Olcott
Peter Onorati ... Rice
Charles Lanyer ... Darren Phillips

Marshall R. Teague ... Doug Daniels
Cylk Cozart ... Dewar Proctor

Charles Kahlenberg ... Oscar De Marco
Gregory Vahanian ... Tom Davis
Bob Lujan ... Steward Rives
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Wings of the Apache
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
Australia:M | Iceland:L | Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating) (2004) | Norway:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #30312) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:15
Filming Locations:
Tucson, Arizona, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The "Scorpion" attack helicopters are actually Hughes MD-500D Defenders more
Goofs:
Factual errors: An OH-58D (The helicopter flown by Sean Young’s character) can not be flown single-pilot in the left seat. Many of the Mission-Related controls are only available to the Right-hand seat (Pilot-in-command seat.) more
Quotes:
Jake Preston: Time to throw the dog a bone, Breaker. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) more
Soundtrack:
White Flag more

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14 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
Truly wretched, 3 February 2004
Author: hausrathman

Inane rip-off starring Nicholas Cage as a helicopter pilot being trained by Tommy Lee Jones for a mission against drug dealers while romancing fellow pilot Sean Young. This is an unsubtle remake of "Top Gun" with a few scenes from "An Officer and a Gentlemen" thrown in for good measure. Nothing works: not the acting, the writing, of the direction. Everything is awful. A truly wretched piece of film making.

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