Air America Page #4

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
868 Views


You can be as weird as anyone here.

It just takes a little time.

I feel like I'm on

a roller coaster of bar girls

strange squiggly signs

weird vehicles and

more bar girls, and Mai Tais and

what am I doing here?

I ask myself that all the time.

Why am I here?

Why am I here?

A taste of the States, feel better?

Yeah, everything's back to normal now.

Good.

Nice silencer.

I am a very considerate person.

If I want to shoot lizards at night

on my miniature golf course

no reason to keep the neighbors awake.

You follow me?

Yeah, at a distance.

You're all right... f***in' punk.

Jack's the only man you ever met

with his own miniature golf course.

Why don't you open this place up

and charge admission?

You guys can do that when I'm gone.

You guys get it in my will.

Oh, sh*t. Please!

Jack's got a point:

The old timers don't get a pension.

Each pilot has to work out

his own retirement scam.

Gino, how's your guns and ammo shop?

Building up inventory?

You ever gonna sell?

Never make a move too soon.

I got a foolproof plan.

I'll take my money...

...and fly a Coppertone banner

over Coney Island

and tell war stories in bars.

"The golden BB's coming up

to Neely now..."

Why you do that?

Why the f***?

Hey, professionalism.

How often do you guys

go on a bender like this?

Bender?

This is just nighttime.

O.V.!

Wake Billy!

I gotta bring him to work.

Wake up, junior! Wake up!

It's OK. He likes to fly.

Good morning!

Crazy Americans!

Gene.

Morning, Rob. Morning.

Pick up Senator Davenport

at the Vientiane airport

and take him up to the

refugee camp at Bien Luc.

Lips zipped about this airbase.

If he's dying for local action

just dazzle him with bullshit.

We got nothing else

to dazzle him with.

See ya!

Gene!

Don't f*** around with the Senator.

What do you mean?

He's on a need to know basis.

The mushroom treatment: Keep him

in the dark and feed him on sh*t.

What's he doing to your plane?

He's purifying it.

It's a Buddhist ritual.

Gene, is there

a secret air base around here?

Which air base, sir?

I feel I'm being

kept out of the loop.

What do I know.

I'm just a luggage boy.

General, stop pouting.

I apologized.

I should be carrying your luggage.

That's how much the US government

values your support.

I hear that the USA finish war

and leave Southeast Asia.

Without suitcase.

General

if things get too hairy for us

politically, we have to bug out

and bring you with us.

We take care of our buddies.

You take care of sh*t!

We've made general Ky in Vietnam

a very generous offer.

I know Marshal Ky.

He's small time.

After war he want to be in America

liquor store owner.

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