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Air Force One (movie)

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Air Force One
Directed byWolfgang Petersen
Written byAndrew W. Marlowe
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Ballhaus
Edited byRichard Francis-Bruce
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • July 21, 1997 (1997-07-21) (Century City)
  • July 25, 1997 (1997-07-25) (United States)
Running time
124 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
Budget$85 million[1]
Box office$315.2 million[1]

Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller movie written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is about a group of Russian terrorists hijacking Air Force One. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, Jürgen Prochnow, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Crewson, Philip Baker Hall and Paul Guilfoyle. The movie was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

Filming

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Kevin Costner was offered the role of President James Marshall but turned it down as he had other commitments, and the script was given to Harrison Ford who accepted it.[2]

Ford refused to do a scene in the script where Marshall sits down to gather himself as he felt that he didn't sit down when family is in a crisis.[3] Marlowe always felt the "Get off my plane!" line was cheesy until Ford performed it to "pitch-perfect".[3]

Release

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It was released on July 25, 1997. When the move came out, U.S. President Bill Clinton praised it. The movie was a box office success and received mostly positive critical reviews. It became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 1997, earning $315.2 million worldwide.

It also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Sound and Best Film Editing, losing both awards to Titanic.[4]

Response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, Air Force One has an approval rating of 79% based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.[5] On Metacritic, the movie has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 25 critics.[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[7]

A Wall Street Journal poll in 2016 named Harrison Ford's James Marshall as the "greatest fictional U.S. president of all time".[8]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Air Force One (1997)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Selling of the President". Los Angeles Times. July 20, 1997. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Air Force One Screenwriter Andrew Marlow Retrospective Interview". Syfy. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  4. ↑ Garner, Chris (March 24, 1998). "A 'Titanic' winner". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Gannett News Service. p. 17. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. open access publication – free to read
  5. ↑ "Air Force One". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Air Force One reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  8. ↑ "44 Fake Presidents From Worst to Best". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 24, 2016.

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