Airborne (1993)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers:

Bill Apablasa (screenplay)
Bill Apablasa (story)

Release Date:

17 September 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

Mitchell Became The Most Popular Guy On Earth...Once He Took To The Sky!

Plot:

Mitchell Goosen is sixteen/seventeen year old kid from California who loves to surf and roller blade...

Plot Keywords:

Hockey | Cincinnati Ohio | Butterfly Knife | Surfing | Inline Skating

Cast

Shane McDermott	...	Mitchell Goosen
Seth Green	...	Wiley
Brittney Powell	...	Nikki
Chris Conrad	...	Jack
Edie McClurg	...	Aunt Irene
Patrick Thomas O'Brien	...	Uncle Louis (as Patrick O'Brien)
Jack Black	...	Augie
Alanna Ubach	...	Gloria
Jacob Vargas	...	Snake
Owen Stadele	...	Blane
Chris Edwards	...	Walt
Daniel Betances	...	Tony Banducci
David Betances	...	Mark Banducci
Jim Jansen	...	Mr. Goosen
Louan Gideon	...	Mrs. Goosen

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:G | Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:L | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Bellevue, Kentucky, USA

Company:

Icon Entertainment International

Trivia:

Central High school is actually Western Hills High School, alma mater of baseball greats Pete Rose and Whitey Herzog.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: During the skate scene, the beginning of the race shows them coming down Springdale Road - which is in Ohio, about 10 miles from Cincinnati. A few scenes later during the same race, the skaters are coming down Devou Park hill - which is in Northern Kentucky. The entire race scene bounces back and forth between Cincinnati, suburbs and northern Kentucky.

Quotes:

Mitchell Goosen: Mitchell Goosen at your service. Don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Don't care. As long as I live near the beach and don't have to wear a tie. Then I'll be stylin'.
Augie: St-st-stylin?
Mitchell Goosen: Let me tell you about stylin'. I'm talkin', the perfect A-frame wave spittin' salt water in your face. I call it 'liquid draino, wanna be bullwinkle', I tell you no lies, my friends. It's the consciousness.

Movie Connections:

References Popeye the Sailor (1933)

Soundtrack:

Tip of my tongue

A thoroughly enjoyable film!

If you don't go into this movie with overly high expectations, but just go with the flow, this movie can be very enjoyable. So it isn't Academy Awards material. How many movies are? Anyway, for a teen high-school love story, this isn't bad. I enjoyed the skating, even though I have been to Pittsburgh enough times to recognize most of the streets, and certainly the skyline. I am more bugged by the movies made in Canada that try to pass themselves as U.S. locations (that tax credit must be a real biggie!)

If you like fish-out-of-water movies or H.S. love interests, give Airborne a look.

I hope Mitchell eventually made his way here to O'ahu and surfed our waves! Now there is Airborne! (especially the latest thing, Kite surfing!)

Laters brah