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Release Date: 1980 Cast: Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Jill Whelan, David Leisure, Jimmie Walker, Robert Stack, Frank Ashmore, Michelle stacy, Al White ...MORE
Cast: Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Jill Whelan, David Leisure, Jimmie Walker, Robert Stack, Frank Ashmore, Michelle stacy, Al White, Ethel Merman, Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Patterson, Howard Jarvis, Barbara Billingsley, Ross Harris, Stephen Stucker ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Ensemble Film, Absurdism, Cult, Comedy, Satire, Disaster, Romance Film, Airplanes and airports 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!, which it follows fairly closely, with superficial changes. For example, Ted Striker was Ted Stryker... 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!, which it follows fairly closely, with superficial changes. For example, Ted Striker was Ted Stryker in the older film. 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 LESS
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