Behind Enemy Lines (2001)


Owen Wilson             Burnett
Gene Hackman            Reigart
Gabriel Macht           Stackhouse
Charles Malik Whitfield Rodway
Joaquim De Almeida      Piquet
David Keith             O'Malley
Olek Krupa              Lokar
Vladimir Mashkov        Tracker
Marko Igonda            Bazda
Eyal Podell             Petty Officer Kennedy
Geoffrey Pierson        Admiral Donnelly
Aernout van Lynden      Aernout Van Lynden

Directed by:            John Moore, Steve M. Davison
Produced by:            Stephanie Austin, Wyck Godfrey, Lee Berger


Lieutenant Chris Burnett is a top naval aviator who is frustrated that fragile geo-politics have kept 
him from what he knows best: flying F/A-18 Superhornet jets into combat. "We're watching, not fighting," 
he tells Admiral Reigart, who thinks Burnett hasn't really learned what it means to be a soldier. During 
a routine reconnaissance mission, Burnett photographs something no one was meant to see and is shot down. 
Trapped behind enemy lines, Burnett struggles to survive the relentless pursuit of a ruthless secret 
police enforcer, a deadly tracker and countless hostile troops. With time running out, Reigart makes the 
wrenching decision to set aside the rules of the tightly-controlled world in which he operates and risk 
his career to launch a renegade rescue mission to save the life of one solider. 

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Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for something more than the boring recon missions 
he's been flying. He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-torn Bosnia. But when he 
talks pilot Stackhouse into flying slightly off-course to check out an interesting target, the two get shot 
down. Burnett is soon alone, trying to outrun a pursuing army, while commanding officer Reigert finds his 
rescue operation hamstrung by politics, forcing Burnett to run far out of his way.

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Lt. Chris Burnett, who wants to resign from the Navy, is teamed up with Lt. Jeremy Stackhouse to conduct a 
reconnaissance mission over war-torn Bosnia, where a peace treaty may put the devastating war to an end. 
During the mission, they fly their FA-18 off course to check out a suspicious target that turns out to be 
the site of a mass grave that contains bodies of Bosnian Muslims. The main perpetrator of the massacre, 
Gen. Miroslav Lokar, has the plane shot down in order to avoid having the plane obtaining evidence of the 
massacre. After parachuting into Serb-controlled Bosnian territory, Stackhouse is executed by Lokar's men 
while Burnett is on the run from the Serbs. Burnett's commanding officer, Rear Admiral Leslie Reigart, has 
trouble gaining approval from his own commanding officers to carry out a search-and-rescue mission to save 
Burnett, who fear that such a move will endanger the peace process. From encountering a major battle in a 
war-torn town, to mine fields, to Serb soldiers seeking the pilot, and to a highly skilled sniper, will 
Burnett be able to escape Bosnia, or will he suffer the same fate of his comrade?