Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.

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Tagline
The fate of a nation rests on the courage of one man.
Release date
1997-07-21
Runtime
2h 4m
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Director


  1. Wolfgang Petersen

Writer


  1. Andrew W. Marlowe

Cast


  1. Harrison Ford
    President James Marshall
  2. Gary Oldman
    Ivan Korshunov
  3. Philip Baker Hall
    U.S. Attorney General Ward
  4. Glenn Morshower
    Agent Walters
  5. William H. Macy
    Major Caldwell
  6. Xander Berkeley
    Secret Service Agent Gibbs
  7. Spencer Garrett
    White House Aide Thomas Lee
  8. Glenn Close
    Vice President Kathryn Bennett
  9. Titus Welliver
    Military Officer in White House Situation Room (uncredited)
  10. Paul Guilfoyle
    Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd
  11. Bruce Holman
    Secret Service Agent #4
  12. Don McManus
    F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton
  13. Ilia Volok
    Vladimir Krasin
  14. Thom Barry
    Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer
  15. Elya Baskin
    Andrei Kolchak
  16. Oleg Taktarov
    Prison Guard #2
  17. Bill Smitrovich
    General Northwood
  18. Tom Everett
    National Security Advisor Jack Doherty
  19. Jürgen Prochnow
    General Ivan Radek
  20. Wendy Crewson
    Grace Marshall
  21. Pasha D. Lychnikoff
    Prison Guard #1 (as Pavel D. Lychnikoff)
  22. Thomas Crawford
    Steward Mike
  23. Timothy Carhart
    Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint (uncredited)
  24. Brian Libby
    Chief Mechanic
  25. Mario Roberts
    Secret Service Agent #1
  26. David Vadim
    Igor Nevsky
  27. Mark Thompson
    Reporter #2
  28. Andrew Divoff
    Boris Bazylev
  29. Dean Stockwell
    Defense Secretary Walter Dean
  30. Gwendoline Yeo
    FBI Agent (uncredited)
  31. Levani
    Sergei Lenski
  32. Alex Veadov
    MiG Pilot
  33. Keith Woulard
    Secret Service Agent #2
  34. Michael Monks
    Assistant Press Secretary
  35. J. Mark Donaldson
    Secret Service Agent #3
  36. Dan Shor
    Notre Dame Aide
  37. Boris Lee Krutonog
    MiG Leader
  38. Willard E. Pugh
    White House Comm. Officer
  39. Diana Bellamy
    Switchboard Operator
  40. Elester Latham
    AFO Navigator
  41. E.E. Bell
    Reporter #1
  42. Carl Weintraub
    Lt. Colonel Ingraham
  43. Harry Hutchinson
    Ramstein Airbase Controller
  44. Fenton Lawless
    Steward Joey
  45. Donna Bullock
    Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel
  46. David Gianopoulos
    Agent Johnson
  47. Albert Owens
    'Football' Colonel
  48. Richard Doyle
    A.F.O. Back-up Pilot
  49. Messiri Freeman
    Future Postmaster General
  50. Liesel Matthews
    Alice Marshall
  51. Chris Howell
    Major Perkins
  52. Alan Woolf
    Russian President Petrov
  53. Duke Miglin
    F-15 'Halo 2' Fighter Pilot
  54. Michael Ray Miller
    Colonel Axelrod
  55. Marciarose Shestack
    Reporter #3
  56. Ren Hanami
    Reporter #4

Composer


  1. Jerry Goldsmith

Producer


  1. Wolfgang Petersen
  2. Armyan Bernstein
  3. Marc Abraham
  4. Thomas A. Bliss
  5. David V. Lester
  6. Peter Kohn
  7. Gail Katz
  8. Jonathan Shestack
  9. Mary Montiforte

Director of Photography


  1. Michael Ballhaus

Editor


  1. Richard Francis-Bruce