Air America Page #3

Synopsis: Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Genre: Action, Comedy
Director(s): Roger Spottiswoode
Production: Live Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
R
Year:
1990
113 min
848 Views


Pretty good, huh?

OK, we almost hit that at 3700

feet. Any higher peaks than that?

At 3700 feet! Any higher

peaks around here?

Yeah.

I need green.

Don't use mine.

We gotta get on a new

safety height, OK?

Hey, I was going for that one!

You did that on purpose.

Last time you colored the sky pink.

Are we south or east of

the Atlantic here?

South or east?

South or east?

East! Don't bother me!

Stay on your side!

It's my coloring book.

If you want to color

you have to be nice to me.

Hey, Senator

let us show you the real Laos!

Sir, he's getting out.

Senator, wait!

Those pilots are drunk.

Not just drunk

they're drunk Americans.

Hey, fellas!

Pitchin' a little woo, are ya?

Don't be embarrassed.

I may look like an old fart

but before I found the lord, I partook

of wine, women, and song, too.

But seriously, even though you won't

get any medals, or be in history books

some of us in Washington know exactly

what you're doing for the war effort.

Could you explain it to us?

It's just as heavy as Vietnam.

No!

Never compare the two.

Vietnam is for n*ggers and no necks.

Sorry

it's the Mai Tai talking.

This is a gentleman's war

a thinking man's war.

Hello.

Corinne Landreaux

this is Billy Covington.

She helps our Asian brothers

in the hills. Thanks.

Hey, I kid, because I care.

You know what the whole problem

with the Vietnam war is?

It's too public.

A secret war is the way to go.

No reporters, no TV

You blackout the war

like a football game.

And y'know what?

We can't lose.

Can I ask you one thing?

Is it a kinky turn on for you

to bring her to a whorehouse with you?

This is not just a whorehouse.

Men talk business here.

I was just getting used to

this being a war.

Who told you

they were two different things?

Rob, I need you outside.

And clear headed!

Worried, Rob?

I wonder what the Pepsi people

would think if they knew.

Don't you ever wonder?

No.

I wonder how many pilots

already know about his place.

Heroin good, very good.

You want to try?

With all due respect

I'm not here for a taste test.

I'm here to ask you again

to shut this lab down

just while the Senator is here.

Why you not tell baggage man

Senator to go home? Kick out!

I wish it were that simple.

In a civilized country like yours

it would be.

But in this case, it's easier

to shut down this lab.

Then you and me be poor

and cannot pay for war.

If we don't sell heroin

no money to feed my soldiers.

No, Major.

Better we stay good friends.

You take care of silly

suitcase man OK?

Of course, General.

As always, you are right.

Something wrong?

I was always the weirdest guy in the

room. Here I'm not in the running.

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John Eskow

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