Pushing Tin

Pushing Tin is a 1999 comedydrama film directed by Mike Newell. It centers on Nick Falzone John Cusack, a cocky air traffic controller who quarrels over proving whos more of a man with fellow employee Russell Bell Billy Bob Thornton. The film was a box office failure and moderate critical success. The original music score was composed by Anne Dudley and Chris Seefried.

At a supermarket, Nick encounters Russells despondent young wife Mary Angelina Jolie, who is sobbing over a grocery cart full of alcohol. In consoling her, Nick ends up back at the Bells house, where he and Mary both cheat on their respective spouses by having sex. Several days later, Mary informs Nick that she immediately told Russell about the affair, and that the confession has actually improved their marriage. Fearing retaliation, Nick confronts Russell at work, and is confused and surprised by Russells eventempered response to the situation. Meanwhile, Nicks wife, Connie Cate Blanchett, seems to become more and more intrigued by Russell, and Nick becomes increasingly paranoid that Russell will eventually seek revenge by having sex with her. While out of town for his fatherinlaws funeral, Nick cant bring himself to lie when a grieving Connie challenges him to say that he has never cheated on her. As their flight home approaches New York, Connie tells Nick that she has indeed slept with Russell. The plane then makes an odd turn, and Nick assumes that Russell is harassing him, or possibly going insane, by purposely directing the plane into a dangerous storm.Soon after going to TRACON to confront Russell, a bomb threat is called in to the facility. The building is evacuated as both Nick and Russell volunteer to stay behind to handle the daunting task of landing all the planes on approach in their airspace before the alleged bomb is set to go off inminutes. Successfully routing all but one plane that has lost radio contact, Nick leaves the building as the deadline approaches, while Russell instead remains inside to make contact with the plane by calling one of its passengers via Airfone. Russell is lauded as a hero for making the effort despite the threat, which turned out to be a hoax. ........

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