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May 10, 2024 · Airplane! (From left) Otto the inflatable autopilot, Leslie Nielsen, and Robert Hays in Airplane! (1980), directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams. Airplane!, American comedy film released in 1980 that parodies the disaster film genre with a story about a former pilot who must land a commercial plane after the passengers and ...
Jan 11, 2024 · (L-R) Writers and directors Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker attend the 30th Anniversary screening of "Airplane!" at the Walter Reade Theater on August 9, 2010 in New York City.
Feb 1, 2023 · Surely, and truly: New book shares backstory of ‘Airplane!’. This cover image released by St. Martin’s Press shows “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!”, by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. (St. Martin’s Press via AP) Published 6:25 AM PDT, February 1, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) — There is so much left ...
Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944) is an American movie director and writer. Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family, and attended Shorewood High School.[1] He is known for the spoof movies that he co-wrote and produced with brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, such as Airplane! (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) and The Naked Gun series ...
English. Budget. $3.5 million [3] Box office. $171 million [4] 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.
Aug 3, 2023 · The Zucker brothers and Abrahams got their start making fun of pop-culture in comedy sketch shows, and never really stopped. While at The University of Wisconsin in the late ’60s and early ...
Oct 1, 2023 · Directors Look Back on One Hell of a Ride. David Zucker and Jim Abrahams talk to Haaretz about ‘Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!’ – a new book capturing the carefree days of three Jewish Midwesterners making it in Hollywood. Well, carefree except for that time the Anti-Defamation League suggested a few cuts to ...
