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Release Date: 1980
Cast: Jill Whelan, Barbara Billingsley, Michelle stacy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Howard Jarvis, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Ashmore, Ross Harris, Ethel Merman, Robert Hays ...MORE
Cast: Jill Whelan, Barbara Billingsley, Michelle stacy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Howard Jarvis, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Ashmore, Ross Harris, Ethel Merman, Robert Hays, Stephen Stucker, Al White, Lorna Patterson, Julie Hagerty, Jimmie Walker, Peter Graves, David Leisure ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Cult, Ensemble Film, Satire, Disaster, Parody, Airplanes And Airports, Absurdism, Romance Film
Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and... MORE
Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
Airplane! was a financial success, grossing over US$83 million in North America alone, against a budget of just $3.5 million. The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
In the years since its release, Airplane!'s reputation has grown substantially. The film was voted the 10th-funniest American comedy on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list in 2000, and ranked sixth on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies. In a major 2007 LESS
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