Forget terrorists or hijackers -- there&s a handful of deadly assassins aboard a jet liner & they don&t even have arms or legs in this airborne thriller Neville Flynn (Samuel L Jackson) is an FBI agent handling what seems like a routine assignment -- serving as bodyguard for Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) a Hawaiian surfer dude who is flying to California to testify in a high-profile criminal trial after witnessing mobster Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) murdering one of his underlings However Flynn&s job gets a lot more challenging when he discovers Kim&s associates don&t want Jones to talk & have devised a unique way to ensure his silence A cache of highly dangerous poisonous snakes has been hidden on board the jet & is released using a timed mechanism once the flight is well underway The snakes quickly attack several members of the flight crew & are eagerly eying the passengers when Flynn decides its time to get medieval on the reptiles Also starring Rachel Blanchard Benjamin Mc Kenzie & Mark Houghton Snakes on a Plane was produced under the title of Pacific Air Flight 121 but in several interviews Samuel L Jackson expressed his enthusiasm for the script&s original title Snakes on a Plane & the high-concept moniker quickly made the film&s title & theme a favorite with bloggers & on Internet fan sites all over the world Actors Samuel L Jackson Byron Lawson Nathan Phillips Rachel Blanchard Todd Louiso Julianna Margulies Terry Chen Bruce James David Koechner & Keith Dallas Director David R Ellis Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen Languages English Approx Run Time 105 Mins