Pushing Tin

Pushing Tin (1999)

  • 48% of critics liked it
    (66 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (32,851 ratings)

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 York's Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Center, where he negotiates air traffic and landing patterns for the Kennedy,… More

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R, 2 hr. 4 min.
Directed By
Mike Newell
Written By
Glen Charles, Les Charles
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 23, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Aug 14, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    A four-character story with four characters worth watching!

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    A lively flight!

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    The movie takes a dive at the end, but it's wonderful fun before that.

  • John Venable, Supercala.com

    Can't really answer why this one got made. It's very uninteresting.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Chris W


    The films is pretty good, then it falls apart and doesn't quite recover. The performances are the best part, and I liked that this film was about a subject that hasn't been shown on screen before. Too bad the screenplay craps out, otherwise this would be a far better film.… More

  • Luke B


    A wonderful film about becoming the second best. Cusack is his perfect self, he represents the insecure everyman who is given a run for his money by the "interesting" Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton's character of Russel is brilliant, he's slightly odd, quite slimy… More

  • Jason D


    Very watchable movie about male competitiveness

  • Cindy I


    Only watched this because John Cusack was in it. I'm willing to give pretty much any film he's in a chance. This time? Wish I hadn't.

  • xGary X


    I'm normally a fan of John Cusack, but this so-called comedy drama is nothing but Cusack and Thornton comparing dick length combined with new age bullshit, surrounded by obnoxiously macho ass holes in bad shell suits. Every character in it is thoroughly unlikeable and the only… More

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