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Nick and the other boys (and Vicki Lewis) working the hotspot of air traffic control in New York are impressed with themselves, to say the least. They thrive on the no-room-for-error, fast-paced job and let it infect their lives. The undisputed king of pushing tin, "The Zone" Falzone, rules his workplace and his wedded life with the same short-attention span that gets planes where they need to be in the nick of time. That is, until Russell Bell, a new transfer with a reputation for recklessness but a record of pure perfection shatters the tensely-held status quo. The game of one-upmanship between the two flies so high as to lead Nick into Russells bed with his wife. His sanity slipping just as fast as his hold on #1, Cusacks controller is thrown out-of-control when Thorntons wanderer quietly leaves town. Nick must now find a way to regain his sanity and repair his marriage before he breaks down completely.
The intense world of air-traffic controllers is played for both drama and laughs in Pushing Tin. John Cusack plays Nick Falzone, the top air traffic controller at New Yorks Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Center, where he negotiates air traffic and landing patterns for the Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports, Americas most congested airspace. Its a tough, stressful job thats highly demanding and Nick is very good at it -- and he takes no small amount of pride in that. So Nick is less than enthusiastic when a new controller comes on board; Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) transferred into TRACON from the Southwest, in search of a greater challenge. In direct contrast to the wired edginess of Nicks personality, Russell is a model of Zen cool who is so focused on planes its said he once stood in the wake of a 747 just to know what it felt like. Soon work becomes a constant competition between Russell and Nick, and their competitiveness doesnt stop when work is over. However, the rivalry begins to take a different turn when Nick takes notice of Russells beautiful but hard-drinking wife Mary (Angelina Jolie), while Nicks wife Connie (Cate Blanchett) finds herself more than a bit intrigued by Russell.
John Cusack
Nick Falzone
Billy Bob Thornton
Russell Bell
Cate Blanchett
Connie Falzone
Angelina Jolie
Mary Bell
Jake Weber
Barry Plotkin
Kurt Fuller
Ed Clabes
Vicki Lewis
Tina Leary
Matt Ross
Ron Hewitt
Jerry Grayson
Leo Morton
Michael Willis
Pat Feeney
Philip Akin
Paul
Mike O'Malley
Pete
Neil Crone
Tom
Matt Gordon
Ken
Joe Pingue
Mark
Shaun Majumder
New Controller
Dwight McFee
Veteran Controller
Rob Smith
Bob
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