Air Force One (film)

Air Force One
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Wolfgang Petersen
Produced by	Armyan Bernstein Gail Katz Jonathan Shestack Wolfgang Petersen
Written by	Andrew W. Marlowe
Starring	Harrison Ford Gary Oldman Glenn Close Wendy Crewson Paul Guilfoyle Liesel Matthews
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Michael Ballhaus
Edited by	Richard Francis-Bruce
Production company	Beacon Pictures Touchstone Pictures Radiant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (US) Buena Vista Pictures (International)
Release date	July 25, 1997 (1997-07-25)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Russian
Budget	$85 million
Box office	$315.1 million

Air Force One is a 1997 American political action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is about a group of Russian terrorists that hijack Air Force One.

The film stars Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, as well as Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, , and Paul Guilfoyle. A box office success with generally supportive critical reviews, the film was one of the most popular action films of the 1990s.

American and Russian Special Forces capture General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), the dictator of a rogue terrorist regime in Kazakhstan that possessed stolen Soviet nuclear weapons, threatening to start a new Cold War. Three weeks after the mission, U.S. President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) attends a diplomatic dinner in Moscow, during which he praises the capture and insists the United States will no longer negotiate with terrorists. Marshall and his entourage, including his wife Grace (Wendy Crewson) and daughter Alice (Liesel Matthews), and several of his Cabinet and advisers, prepare to return to the United States on Air Force One. In addition, a number of members of the press corps have been invited aboard, including Russian terrorists and Radek loyalists disguised as journalists led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman).