Pushing Tin

Turbulence - and other disasters ( Original Title: Pushing Tin ). 's An American comedy film from the year 1999 was directed by Mike Newell, the screenplay is by Glen Charles and Les Charles on the basis of the text Something 's Got To Give by Darcy Frey. The film starred John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton.

Action

Nick Falzone ( John Cusack ) works as an air traffic controller, the stress of work he and his colleagues react by wild parties and high-spirited pranks from. One day the indian -born Russell Bell ( Billy Bob Thornton ) comes into the team. Falzone wants to impress their new colleagues, he moves quickly through the city. Suddenly Bell pushes with his foot the foot of Falzone on the accelerator, the frightened Falzone and the cool Bell rush at high speed through the streets.

Nick begins an affair with Mary Bell, who feels lonely. A little later he realizes that apparently his wife is having an affair - just with Russell - had. On the way back from the funeral of her father Connie evaluates the jealous hints and questions of Nick as a sign of his affair. The question directly asked deviates from Nick, Connie cries and leaves him.

One day a bomb threat is a, the headquarters of the pilot is evacuated. Only Nick and Russell remain until the last moment to guide the aircraft. Nick flees at the last second out of the building and throws himself on the ground, Russell comes out a little later still. The threat turns out to be wrong. In the media Nick as a coward, but Russell is shown as a hero.

Russell announces the job and disappears somewhere in the wilderness. Nick can not concentrate, his decisions lead within an hour to two near misses. "Permit " means an air traffic controller but only two errors in two years, after the third he is released. To avoid this, sends his boss Nick in a longer holiday. This uses Nick to find Russell and speak out with him. Russell admits to Nick that he was fired because he would otherwise have killed one day either Nick " or ninety Japanese in an airplane ." The two men face at the end of a runway and can be carried twirl of a landing airplane to look through this experience life from a different perspective.

Nick later returns to his workplace. When his wife with a plane flies, he calls to the machine and bring Connie to to make an appointment with him.

Reviews

Roger Ebert compared the film in the Chicago Sun - Times on 22 April 1999 with an overloaded, heavy aircraft. He wrote that we could still have the hope in the first hour of the film, he would develop into something interesting. The working environment shown by air traffic controllers and the characters of Nick Russell, Connie and Mary he found interesting. The later act disappointed him.

KulturSPIEGEL 7/2000, Der Spiegel 27/2000 and TV Movies 14/2000 praised the beginning of the film, however, criticized the end, the designated Der Spiegel as a crash landing.

Awards

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

Trivia

During the filming of Angelina Jolie Billy Bob Thornton met, with whom she was married for a short time later.

1999 in film Mike Newell (director) Art Linson Film score Anne Dudley Gale Tattersall Kurt Fuller Dance with a Stranger Donnie Brasco (film) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) Love in the Time of Cholera (film)
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