SummaryAn intense rivalry develops between two air traffic controllers (Cusack, Thornton) that threatens both their careers and marriages.
Directed By:Mike Newell
Written By:Darcy Frey, Glen Charles, Les Charles
Pushing Tin
Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
24% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
62% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
14% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
75
The movie is worth seeing, for the good stuff. I'm recommending it because of the performances and the details in the air-traffic control center.
63
One of the most discouraging things about many big studio movies is the way they waste resources, mainly talent and money. Pushing Tin manages to waste an excellent cast, a glossy production and what initially seems to be a bright, funny script. [23 April 1999, Friday, p.A]
60
Newell's ensemble timing and breezily sardonic style make it work better than might be expected.
50
Unfortunately, story's tension climaxes a half-hour before the film is over, and thereafter dissipates much of the charge and good will generated up to that point.
50
Bids for originality by focusing on an offbeat profession. Every other aspect is pretty stale, though, from the smart-alecky characters to the romantic-triangle plot.
40
Contrived, meandering, clichéd and just plain preposterous.
20
A fast-paced, twisty-turny, high-fiving, but ultimately spiraling disaster of a movie about air traffic controllers, gets lost in this hyperbolic cloud cover, never to be found again.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
58% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
35% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
8% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
May 22, 2022
8
There's a lot going on in this movie, i even think it's too much going on but overall i kinda like it at in the end, i never like the movie until Russell came in, some nit picky here and there throughout the movie but again overall i enjoyed Pushing Tin mostly, it's a pretty complicated movie in terms of what's going on but i think they still done it quite well at least for me, the best thing that they nailed it is the comedy, i laugh a lot, it's a great comedy, good drama, great cast, good performance, and good movie overall.
Production Company:
- Fox 2000 Pictures
- New Regency Productions
- Art Linson Productions
- Monarchy Enterprises B.V.
- Taurus Film
- Dogstar Films
Release Date:Apr 23, 1999
Duration:2 h 4 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Nothing Grounds You Like the Truth.
Awards
Casting Society (CSA)
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
