Airplane!
1980
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Airplane!: Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty. After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) [5] is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, [6] and produced by Jon Davison.
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Airplane! This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot...
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Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his neurotic fear of flying and his drinking problem - he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth - Ted has been unable to hold down a responsible job.
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Voted “one of the 10 funniest movies ever made” by the American Film Institute, “Airplane!” is a masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy. 11,600. IMDb 7.7 1 h 24 min 1980 X-Ray HDR UHD PG. Comedy • Understated • Nail-Biting • Strange.
A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie...
Play Trailer. What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound? Overview. An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning. David Zucker. Director, Writer. Jim Abrahams. Director, Writer. Jerry Zucker. Director, Writer.
“Airplane!” is a comedy in the great tradition of high school skits, the Sid Caesar TV show, Mad magazine, and the dog-eared screenplays people’s nephews write in lieu of earning their college diplomas. It is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny.
