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Pushing Tin (1999)
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Blessed by a fantastic cast and slick direction by Mike Newell, Pushing Tin is one of those invigorating movies (like Wall Street or All the President's Men) that takes you behind the scenes of a dramatic profession--in this case, the high-stress world of air-traffic controllers--and throws in a source of conflict to ramp up the tension. For ace "tin-pusher" Nick Falzone (John Cusack), that conflict arrives in the form of Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton), an Irish/Choctaw half-breed whose Zen-like control of air traffic immediately puts Nick on the defensive. Add an incident of infidelity and Nick's subsequent...
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I was listening to Stephen and Sam from AllMovieTalk.com on their podcast the other day and they were listing their top 6 plane movies. Stephen mentioned this film and, while it is not entirely about planes, it is about air traffic controllers.
John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton are controllers. Cusack is the top dog, and...
(complete Pushing Tin review by B Movie Ben)
Pushing Tin Movie Review by Zara  (3/6/2007) |
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This movie was marketed as being a funny one, something of a tale of two co-workers fighting for superiority in the workplace. Instead it's a depressing drama about two men who are complete dickweeds, one of which happens to be married to a trashy looking Angelina Jolie (her first step into complete yucky years) who just...
(complete Pushing Tin review by Zara)
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