Turbulence - and other disasters

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Movie
German title Turbulence - and other disasters
Original title Pushing Tin
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mike Newell
script Glen Charles ,
Les Charles
production Kind Linson
music Anne Dudley ,
Chris Seefried
camera Gale Tattersall
cut Jon Gregory
occupation

Turbulence - and other disasters (Original title: Pushing Tin ) is an American comedy film from the year 1999. The director led Mike Newell , the screenplay written Glen Charles and Les Charles basis of the text Something's Got To Give by Darcy Frey . The main roles were played by John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton .

action

Nick Falzone ( John Cusack ) works as an air traffic controller , he and his colleagues react to the stress of work with wild parties and high-spirited pranks. One day the Native American Russell Bell ( Billy Bob Thornton ) joins the team. Falzone wants to impress the new colleague, he drives quickly through town. Suddenly Bell presses Falzone's foot on the gas pedal with his foot, the frightened Falzone and the cool Bell race through the streets at high speed.

Nick starts an affair with Mary Bell, who feels lonely. A little later he notices that his wife apparently also had an affair - with Russell of all people. On the way back from her father's funeral, Connie interprets Nick's jealous hints and questions as a sign of his affair. Nick evades the directly asked question, Connie cries and leaves him.

One day a bomb threat comes in, the control center of the pilots is evacuated. Only Nick and Russell stay until the last moment to direct the planes. Nick escapes from the building at the last second and throws himself on the floor, Russell comes out calmly a little later. The threat turns out to be false. In the media, Nick is portrayed as a coward, but Russell is portrayed as a hero.

Russell quits his job and disappears into the wild somewhere. Nick can't concentrate; his decisions lead to two near-collisions within an hour. An air traffic controller is only "allowed" to make two mistakes in two years, after which he is dismissed. To avoid this, his boss sends Nick on a longer vacation. Nick uses this to find Russell and to talk to him. Russell confesses to Nick that he quit because otherwise one day he would either have killed Nick "or ninety Japanese people on a plane". The two men stand at the end of a runway and let a landing plane whirl through them in order to see life from a different perspective through this experience.

Nick later returns to work. When his wife flies on a plane, he calls the plane and gets Connie to meet him.

Reviews

Roger Ebert compared the film in the April 22, 1999 Chicago Sun-Times to an overloaded, clumsy airplane. He wrote that in the first hour of the film one could still have the hope that it would develop into something interesting. He found the working environment of the air traffic controllers and the characters of Nick, Russell, Connie and Mary interesting. The later story disappointed him.

Kultur Spiegel 7/2000, Der Spiegel 27/2000 and TV Spielfilm 14/2000 praised the beginning of the film, but criticized the end, which Der Spiegel described as a crash landing .

Awards

The film was in the year 1999 for the Casting Society of America Award nomination, in 2000 he was nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award nomination.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Trivia

While filming, Angelina Jolie met Billy Bob Thornton , with whom she was later briefly married.

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