Aurora: Operation Intercept

Aurora: Operation Intercept (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Paul Levine

Written By:
Paul Levine

Actors:
Bruce Payne ..... Gordon Pruett
Natalya Andreychenko ..... Francesca Zaborszin
Lance Henriksen ..... William Stenghel
John Stockwell ..... Andy Aldrich
Michael Champion ..... Johann Wells
Dennis Christopher ..... Victor Varenkov
Corbin Bernsen ..... Flight Engineer Murphy
Curt Lowens ..... Dr. Zaborszin
Corinne Bohrer ..... Sharon Pruett
John Prosky ..... Capt. Hulett
Jon Chardiet ..... Radio tech
Paul Eisenhauer ..... Government agent
Kay Gerhard ..... N.A. 737 stewardess
Dean Howell ..... Warren
Katherine Moffat ..... T.A. stewardess

Synopsis:

An international airliner, piloted by Captain Murphy (Corbin Bernsen) is suddenly jolted mid-flight, loses all power and crashes into the sea. It's the second crash by a US plane in two days, under the same suspicious circumstances. On the same day the Air Force's top secret stealth fighter, AURORA, vanishes without trace. Back in Washington, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stenghel, (Lance Henriksen in his finest role since Firehawk) receives an anonymous video tape. It has been sent by the daughter of a prominent Russian scientist who died mysteriously three years earlier. She is demanding that the US government admit responsibility for the death of her father, otherwise she will continue to blow up an airliner every four hours. To avoid a major alert and a national crisis, Stenghel calls up two "Top Gun" pilots to find her. However, they are forced out of the sky and captured. Brutalized and tortured by the terrorists, their only option is to fight their way out and recapture the plane - in the end it is a battle of minds, power and planes in this supersonic war of nerves and bravery.

Russian Francesca Zaborszin (Natalya Andreichenko) is convinced that the United States is responsible for her father's death. Crazed for revenge, she has devised a system that scrambles the navigational controls of commercial airliners, causing them to crash without warning. After two major air disasters in as many days, Capt. Gordon Pruett (Bruce Payne), a United States Air Force fighter pilot, is called into action. It is discovered that Francesca's secret control system is based in a Middle Eastern terrorist complex; Pruett is ordered to bomb the facilities before more airliners can crash (and more innocent lives are lost), but he finds himself unable to carry out his orders when he discovers another American pilot is being held hostage at the base. The supporting cast includes Corbin Bernsen and Dennis Christopher.

There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russian descent, Francesca Zaborszin, the daughter of a slain Federal investigator, claims responsibility for the crashes. She believes her father was killed by the FBI as part of a cover-up operation and wishes to avenge his death by threatening to down more aircraft using the same electromagnetic pulse method. She also intends to crash a stolen military jet into the White House. There's no time to ground the planes: just enough time to try to stop her.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 September, 2009.

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