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Fire Birds
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Step Tyner (story) &
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Release Date:
25 May 1990 (USA) more
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The best just got better.
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Cast

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Nicolas Cage ... Jake Preston

Tommy Lee Jones ... Brad Little

Sean Young ... Billie Lee Guthrie
Bryan Kestner ... Breaker

Illana Diamant ... Sharon Geller (as Illana Shoshan)

Dale Dye ... A.K. McNeil
Mary Ellen Trainor ... Janet Little
J.A. Preston ... General Olcott
Peter Onorati ... Rice
Charles Lanyer ... Darren Phillips

Marshall R. Teague ... Doug Daniels
Cylk Cozart ... Dewar Proctor

Charles Kahlenberg ... Oscar De Marco
Gregory Vahanian ... Tom Davis
Bob Lujan ... Steward Rives
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Also Known As:
Wings of the Apache
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Runtime:
85 min
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Certification:
Australia:M | Iceland:L | Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating) (2004) | Norway:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #30312) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:15
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The Catamarca Desert is specifically located in Argentina. more
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Factual errors: An OH-58D (The helicopter flown by Sean Young’s character) can not be flown single-pilot in the left seat. Many of the Mission-Related controls are only available to the Right-hand seat (Pilot-in-command seat.) more
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Little: Boy, you're gonna be busier than a three-peckered goat. more
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i was entertained, 8 July 2008
6/10
Author: disdressed12 from Canada

i actually enjoyed this movie,which is basically Top Gun with Apache helicopters.i don't think it was a great movie,but it was entertaining.sure there's some bad dialogue and the movie is pretty low key for its kind.the romance angle comes off as silly and unnecessary.but the flying sequences were OK.at least they could have been worse,and i have seen worse.the movie doesn't exactly stretch the acting talents of Nicolas Gage,Tommy Lee Jones,Sean Young,or anyone involved,for that matter.the story is not original,either.yet,like i mentioned earlier,i was entertained,and that's something.for me,Fire Birds is a 6/10

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