Airplane!
"What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?"
Comedy
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
🎬 DirectorJim Abrahams
📅 Release1980-06-27
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioParamount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions
🗳 Votes5,064
🔥 Popularity9
💰 Budget$3,500,000
💵 Revenue$83,453,539
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🎭 Cast
Robert Hays
Ted Striker
Julie Hagerty
Elaine Dickinson
Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Rumack
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Roger Murdock
Lloyd Bridges
Steve McCroskey
Peter Graves
Capt. Clarence Oveur
Robert Stack
Captain Rex Kramer
Lorna Patterson
Randy
Jill Whelan
Lisa Davis
Ann Nelson
Hanging Lady
Jim Abrahams
Religious Zealot #6
Jonathan Banks
Gunderson
Stephen Stucker
Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs
Frank Ashmore
Victor Basta
Craig Berenson
Paul Carey
🎥 Crew
Director
Jim Abrahams
Director
David Zucker
Director
Jerry Zucker
Producer
Jon Davison
Original Music Composer
Elmer Bernstein
Director of Photography
Joseph F. Biroc
Casting
Joel Thurm
Production Design
Ward Preston
Set Decoration
Anne D. McCulley
Costume Design
Rosanna Norton
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🏷 Keywords
chicago, illinoispost-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)airplanecataclysmnunguitaralcoholstewardesstaxi driverpassengerfear of flyingpilot
💬 Reviews
An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wordplay and referential humor. I see vestiges of this film in everything from 'The Hangover' to 'The …
Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have been stricken with food poisoning and when the cockpit it wiped-out, it falls to him to bravely take the joystick and try to land in Chicago. Luckily, …
Surely, this is hilarious. Surely. A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again. This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew is too sick to fly, so a nerve racked ex pilot needs to fly the plane. Lots of Monty Python style "unreal" events to make this even funnier, along wit…
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