Cutaway is a 2000 American crime action television film about skydiving, co-written and directed by Guy Manos.

[1] Cutaway stars Tom Berenger, Stephen Baldwin, Dennis Rodman, Maxine Bahns, Ron Silver, Casper Van Dien and Thomas Ian Nicholas.

When U.S. Customs agent Vic Cooper's personnel file is reviewed, it shows that he struggles to disassociate his undercover identities from his real one.

Cooper gets Margate to approve more undercover work, and he visits the Army jump team for some tips from their leader Delmira.

As his proficiency increases, he is able to enter the formation faster, which moves him further back in the roster towards Red Line, who always comes out last because he is the fastest diver.

Not surprised at the news, Red Line stoically cuts away from his main chute and falls to the ground as he commits suicide.

Cutaway features numerous aerial skydiving stunts with much of the film shot in Florida at Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Opa Locka, and in the Fort Bragg, U.S. Army base, North Carolina.

Towards the end of the film, paratroopers jump vertically from the Sebastian Municipal Airport, located between Vero Beach and Melbourne, Florida.

The "jump" aircraft are: Since much of the film was shot at airports, a number of other aircraft were seen in the background: [2] Aviation film historian Christian Santoir characterized Cutaway "... (as) in the same vein as The Gypsy Moths (1969) by John Frankenheimer, Drop Zone (1994) by John Badham, or Terminal velocity (1994) by Deran Sarafian.