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Executive Decision (1996) 6.4
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation. Director:Stuart Baird |
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| Steven Seagal | ... | ||
| Halle Berry | ... |
Jean, Flight Attendant
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| John Leguizamo | ... |
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| Joe Morton | ... | ||
| BD Wong | ... |
Sergeant Louie
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Secretary of Defense Charles White
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| Andreas Katsulas | ... |
El Sayed Jaffa
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Allison, Flight Attendant
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| Marla Maples | ... |
Nancy, Flight Attendant
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| Ingo Neuhaus | ... |
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Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the 'plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a specially equipped 'plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
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Five miles above the earth, an elite team of six men must make an air to air transfer, in order to save 400 lives on board a 747... and 40 million below. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 March 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Critical Decision See more »Filming Locations:
Alverno High School - 200 North Michillinda Avenue, Sierra Madre, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$55,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,204,433 (UK) (17 May 1996)Gross:
JPY 153,472,300 (Japan) (29 November 1996)Company Credits
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Written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under Licence from CEMA Special Markets
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The airline featured in the film, Oceanic, was also the name of the airliner that crashed in the TV series Lost (2004). Coincidentally, Nick Jameson appeared in both. See more »Goofs
In the second London scene, at the U.S. Embassy, we see a sky that is not yet fully dark, and only a few lights are on. See more »Quotes
[Grant, wearing a tuxedo, is introduced to the commando unit]Rat: Who's this? Double-oh Seven?
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IT'S NICE TO GO TRAV'LINGWritten by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under Licence from CEMA Special Markets
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The film concerns a transatlantic flight, hi-jacked between Athens and Washington, D.C.
The hijackers are a group of heavily armored suicide fanatical terrorists...
Their motivation is supposedly to free a feared and wanted terrorist, recently handed over to US authorities, arrested, and taken to a warship in the Mediterranean...
The President has two options: to let the passenger fleet proceed to the United States or destroy it before it gets there along with hundreds of passengers...
Steven Seagal is the commando leader who recognizes the threat, but proposes to use a modified Stealth fighter especially designed for mid-air crew transfers, and thus allow his elite anti-terrorist unit to sneak the Boeing 747, localize and eventually disarm the bomb, and overtake the hijackers...
Kurt Russell is the Pentagon intelligence analyst, who believes that the hijacking is just a ruse, that the deadly nerve toxin is on board, and that the terrorists are planning to use it and the airplane as 'a sort of poor man's atomic bomb, to be detonated over Washington..'
Halle Berry is the brave helpful stewardess who understood the message of the striking team... She has to identify for them, the passenger who is in control of the bomb...
David Suchet is the terrorist who can endanger us all! He is Jaffa's deputy director, Nagi Hassan fanatically driven by hatred and violence... This nasty man seizes control of the air carrier and plans to kill everyone on board...
Oliver Platt is the aerospace engineer, who can isolate the bomb's power sources only if he could control his nerves...
Joe Morton is the bomb disposal expert who guides Platt through the disabling of the bomb...
J. T. Walsh is the ambitious senator who wants to be seen as the savior of the hostages, an image that won't hurt him in the presidential elections...
John Leguizamo (Seagal's second in command..) hopes for a good movie on board...
Thanks to a solid cast and plenty of action and suspense, Stuart Baird's 'Executive Decision' could be a timely reminder to one deceptively simple question: How can we stop hijackers from using planes as weapons?