Biography: Jerry Zucker |

Milwaukee-born filmmaker Jerry Zucker attended Shorewood High School with his older brother, David. It was there, in student variety shows, that the Zuckers began displaying the lampoonish Mad Magazine-style humor that would distinguish their later... more
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Cast: John Cleese   
Tags: Chase Movie Slapstick Comedy Ensemble Film 
Length: 112min
A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an...

Cast: Sean Connery John Gielgud Jerry Goldsmith Richard Gere   
Tags: Romance Adventure Costume Adventure Period Film Romantic Drama 
Length: 133min
The tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is always ripe for retelling. In this rendition, the sexy Richard Gere is Sir Lancelot, threatening to supersede the aging King Arthur (Sean Connery) by winning the love of his young wife...

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg Demi Moore   
Tags: Romance Fantasy Romantic Fantasy Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies 
Length: 127min
An interesting hybrid of popular film genres, Ghost showcases the talents of its entire cast. While out on the town one evening, New York couple Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are confronted by a mugger. After submitting to his demands,...

Cast: Bette Midler Danny DeVito   
Tags: Farce Crime Comedy Comedy 
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...

Cast: Omar Sharif Peter Cushing Val Kilmer   
Tags: Spy Comedy Comedy Absurd Comedy Parody/Spoof 
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...

Cast: Jerry Zucker David Zucker 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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