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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>Pushing Tin</font> <br>by David Ng</font> <font size="3" face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"><br><i><font size="6" color="#008000"><b>P</b></font>ushing Tin</i> hails from the lineage of high stress comedies that find humor in occupational head butting. From <i>Broadcast News</i> to the under-appreciated <i>The Paper</i>, filmmakers have fashioned the workplace into a viper pit of egos, testosterone, and crushed emotion. Stress is the key ingredient here, and <i>Pushing Tin</i>, which takes place in an air-traffic control center, has enough of it to put all of its characters on permanent disability. Director Mike Newell succeeds at visualizing a world whose excitement resides mostly on computer screens and in headsets. He assembles a crew of aviation geeks who are truly difficult to like at first, but whose wackiness forms a lovably dysfunctional family. And he doesn’t dumb-down the technical babble that flies breakneck out of their mouths. <p><a href="pushingtin-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>