

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
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Cast

Nicolas Cage
Cameron Poe

John Cusack
Agent Vince Larkin

John Malkovich
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Ving Rhames
Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

Mykelti Williamson
"Baby-O" O'Dell

Dave Chappelle
"Pinball" Parker

Colm Meaney
Agent Duncan Malloy

Monica Potter
Tricia Poe

Landry Allbright
Casey Poe

Rachel Ticotin
Guard Sally Bishop

Steve Buscemi
Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"

Nick Chinlund
William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford
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