Pushing Tin (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie
Synopsis:
A New York air traffic controller who prides himself on having his life together and being the best at his job has his complacency shaken when a semi-mystic Indian half-breed arrives on the team with an even cooler head and a sexy young wife. There follows an unspoken game of oneupmanship which can only end in tears.
Review:
Curious comedy drama that has its wacky moments and is watchable thanks to the talents of it leads, but leaves precious few scraps for anyone else, wives included. The blackly comic exposure of air traffic controllers as nervous wrecks, video game nerds or something in between, and of the whole system as being based on cramming as many jets as possible into the given air space in order to minimise delays (the title is an allusion to this near-miss strategy) all seems somewhat sour after 9/11/2001. Which somehow makes the film more interesting historically, but only a little.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie
Synopsis:
A New York air traffic controller who prides himself on having his life together and being the best at his job has his complacency shaken when a semi-mystic Indian half-breed arrives on the team with an even cooler head and a sexy young wife. There follows an unspoken game of oneupmanship which can only end in tears.
Review:
Curious comedy drama that has its wacky moments and is watchable thanks to the talents of it leads, but leaves precious few scraps for anyone else, wives included. The blackly comic exposure of air traffic controllers as nervous wrecks, video game nerds or something in between, and of the whole system as being based on cramming as many jets as possible into the given air space in order to minimise delays (the title is an allusion to this near-miss strategy) all seems somewhat sour after 9/11/2001. Which somehow makes the film more interesting historically, but only a little.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie
Synopsis:
A New York air traffic controller who prides himself on having his life together and being the best at his job has his complacency shaken when a semi-mystic Indian half-breed arrives on the team with an even cooler head and a sexy young wife. There follows an unspoken game of oneupmanship which can only end in tears.
Review:
Curious comedy drama that has its wacky moments and is watchable thanks to the talents of it leads, but leaves precious few scraps for anyone else, wives included. The blackly comic exposure of air traffic controllers as nervous wrecks, video game nerds or something in between, and of the whole system as being based on cramming as many jets as possible into the given air space in order to minimise delays (the title is an allusion to this near-miss strategy) all seems somewhat sour after 9/11/2001. Which somehow makes the film more interesting historically, but only a little.