PUSHING TIN (1999) ***

(focus on air traffic controllers, male rivalry)

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Contains 6 movie quotes & 22 Academic Words (AWL*).
Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is the hotshot air traffic controller (ATC).  Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) is the half-Indian new guy, who doesn't talk much in this pre-9/11 comedy about pushing the limits of competition.  Mary (Angelina Jolie) is the alluring and mysterious 20-year-old wife of Russell.  Connie (Cate Blanchett) is Nick’s suburban New York housewife in a story about the world inside a terminal radar approach control (TRACON), where the job description includes depression, nervous breakdown, heart attack, and hypertension.  Rated R (124 min.) mike laib 2010.

http://www.foxmovies.com/pushingtin/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120797/

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