Twinkle, the sparkliest student in Sky School, looks forward to her turn to be "Star of the Week," but when another student sings the song Twinkle has been practicing, she must find something else to share.

A prison parolee on a flight home finds the airplane taken over by other criminals attempting to free a murderer. the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Cage) is hicthing a ride home to his wife and daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich)