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[[File:51Z3RS06DBL__SL500_AA300__9949.jpg|frame|The Few. The Proud. The Totally Insane.]]

 

{{quote|'''Billy''': Jesus! Who the hell is shooting at us?

'''Jack''': Over here, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everybody shoots at us]]. }}

 

1969: After [[It Makes Sense in Context|buzzing a semi-driver]], radio eye-in-the-sky Billy Covington([[Robert Downey, Jr.]]) gets stripped of his pilot's license. No sooner does this happen then he gets a job offer from Air America, a covert airlift organization operating out of Laos. Once there, he finds the company full of lunatics, with perhaps the looniest being [[Crazy Awesome|Gene Ryack]] ([[Mel Gibson]]), a self-proclaimed Buddhist who runs guns on the side. He also finds out the organization is secretly a drug-smuggling operation, run by [[Magnificent Bastard|Major Lemond]]([[Scrubs|Ken Jenkins]]) and General Soong([[The Pink Panther|Burt Kwouk]]).

Not to be confused with [[Air America Radio]].

 

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Not ''too'' bad, but some of the songs on the soundtrack actually came out ''after'' 1969.

* [[Agony of the Feet]]: Gene relates a story about getting his toe shot off through the cockpit floor. He now keeps it in a jar around his neck.

* [[Holiday in Cambodia]]: Pretty much the plot.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: At the beginning, a farmer shoots down a plane with a casual pot-shot.

* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Rob Diehl

* [[Percussive Therapy]]: After getting his pilot's license pulled, Billy kicks the shit out of a coffee table.

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]

[[Category:Air America]]