David Zucker

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

Tags: Comedy Absurd Comedy Horror Comedy Gross-Out Comedy Parody/Spoof 

Length: 83min

Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as...

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Scary Movie 3 (2003)

Tags: Gross-Out Comedy Comedy Absurd Comedy Horror Comedy Parody/Spoof Slapstick 

Length: 88min

While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in...

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My Boss's Daughter (2003)

Tags: Farce Comedy Romantic Comedy 

Length: 86min

Anarchic comedy veteran David Zucker directs hot young thing of 2003 Ashton Kutcher in the fast-paced omantic comedy My Boss's Daughter. Kutcher plays rookie executive Tom Stansfield, who wants to impress his demanding boss, Jack Taylor (Terence...

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BASEketball (1998)

Tags: Gross-Out Comedy Comedy Absurd Comedy Slapstick 

Length: 103min

David Zucker directed this slapstick sports comedy starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Competing two-on-two against some basketball jocks, goofballs Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) attempt to win by devising new rules...

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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)

Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy 

Length: 85min

Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner,...

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The Naked Gun (1988)

Cast: George Kennedy   

Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy 

Length: 85min

We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading...

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Ruthless People (1986)

Cast: Jerry Zucker Bette Midler   

Tags: Comedy Crime Comedy Farce 

Length: 93min

The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the...

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Top Secret! (1984)

Cast: Omar Sharif Peter Cushing   

Tags: Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy Spy Comedy 

Length: 90min

The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an "Elvis" movie...

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Airplane! (1980)

Cast: David Zucker Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges   

Tags: Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy 

Length: 88min

This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot...

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