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Airplane!

Name: Airplane!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1980-06-27
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 7.303

★ 7,3 /10 (5,149 Votes)

1980 EN 88 min

Overview

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

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Release date

27/06/1980

Votes

5,149

Popularity

13.9

What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

88 min

Budget

$3,500,000

Revenue

$83,453,539

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

Barbara Billingsley

Jive Lady

Lee Bryant

Mrs. Hammen

Joyce Bulifant

Mrs. Davis

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Mae E. Campbell

Security Lady

Ethel Merman

Lieutenant Hurwitz

Jimmie Walker

Windshield Wiper Man

Nora Meerbaum

Cocaine Lady

Kenneth Tobey

Air Controller Neubauer

James Hong

Japanese General

Michelle Stacy

Young Girl with Coffee

David Leisure

First Krishna

Al White

Second Jive Dude

Nicholas Pryor

Mr. Hammen

Cyril O'Reilly

Soldier

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Ted Chapman

Airport Steward

No photo

Jesse Emmett

Man from India

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Norman Alexander Gibbs

First Jive Dude

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Amy Gibson

Soldier's Girl

Marcy Goldman

Mrs. Geline

No photo

Bob Gorman

Striped Controller

Rossie Harris

Joey

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Maurice Hill

Reporter #3

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David Hollander

Young Boy with Coffee

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Howard Honig

Jack

Gregory Itzin

Religious Zealot #1

No photo

Howard Jarvis

Man in Taxi

Michael Laurence

Newscaster

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Zachary Lewis

Religious Zealot #3

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Barbara Mallory

Religious Zealot #2

Maureen McGovern

Nun

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Mary Mercier

Shirley

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Len Mooy

Reporter #1

No photo

Laura Nix

Mrs. Hurwitz

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John O'Leary

Reporter #2

No photo

Bill Porter

Hospital Contortionist

Conrad E. Palmisano

Religious Zealot #4

Mallory Sandler

L.A. Ticket Agent

No photo

Robert Starr

Religious Zealot #5

Barbara Stuart

Mrs. Kramer

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Lee Terri

Mrs. Oveur

William Tregoe

Jack Kirkpatrick

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Hatsuo Uda

Japanese Newscaster

Herb Voland

Air Controller Macias

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John David Wilder

Second Krishna

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Windy

Horse

Jason Wingreen

Dr. Brody

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Louise Yaffe

Mrs. Jaffe

Charlotte Zucker

Make-up Lady

David Zucker

Ground Crewman #2

Jerry Zucker

Ground Crewman #1

Kitten Natividad

Bouncy Topless Woman on Plane (uncredited)

Larry Blake

Upside-Down Man (uncredited)

Paula Moody

Girl Scout In Bar (uncredited)

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Girl Scout In Bar (uncredited)

Henry Wills

Commuter on Baggage Carousel (uncredited)

Joyce Mandel

Woman on Flight (uncredited)

Gene LeBell

Religious Zealot (uncredited)

Susan Breslau

Ticket Agent (uncredited)

Bob Bryan

Native (uncredited)

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Dan Cotter

Passenger in Terminal (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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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 Office'. If at any point you are watching this and find yourself saying 'This is really stupid', just remember: Relax. It's supposed to be stupid.

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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, his ex-girlfriend "Elaine" (Julie Hagerty) is there, as is the always scene stealing inflatable "Otto" pilot. Lloyd Bridges is entertaining as the air traffic controller as is Robert Stack as the man …

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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 with the parody of culture, such as the woman who speaks "Jive". You need someone to interpret "Jive" in life or death situations, you know? The people who don't find this funny probably don't even like…

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**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.** I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm reduced to the insignificance of knowing little). However, as far as I can understand, I think it was one of the first nonsense American satires, heavily inspired by Monty Python, an English group that was having its biggest successes at that time, and the film “National Lampoon Animal House”, which had also been released at this time. For this…

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