Airplane!(Movie, 1980)

Name: Airplane!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1980
Duration: T01:28:00
Rating: 3.6

| 1h 28min | Genre: Comedy

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 1,992 votes)

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many ... ()

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Available languages: English
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Duration: 1h 27min

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Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
Duration: 1h 27min

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Duration: 1h 28min

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About Airplane!

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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Trailer for Airplane! + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Airplane! (1980) Original Trailer [FHD](Trailer, 3:33)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Los Angeles (California)

Plays in: Los Angeles (California)

Inspired by: Zero Hour! (movie)

Made by: Paramount Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 31 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/02/1980

Cast: Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jonathan Banks, James Hong, Ethel Merman, Nicholas Pryor, Gregory Itzin, Frank Ashmore, Jill Whelan, Kenneth Tobey, Stephen Stucker, Jim Abrahams, Barbara Billingsley, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Conrad Palmisano, Barbara Stuart, John O'Leary, Al White, William Duell, Herb Vigran, Joyce Mandel, Lee Bryant, Jason Wingreen, Herb Voland, Ann Nelson, Joyce Bulifant, Sandra Lee Gimpel

Director: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Producer: Howard W. Koch, Jon Davison

Screenwriter: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett

Executive Producer: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Film Editor: Patrick Kennedy

Director of Photography: Joseph F. Biroc

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

Production Designer: Ward Preston

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Flying High"

"Apertem os Cintos, o Piloto Sumiu"

"Y a-t-il un pilote dans l'avion 1"

"Flying High!"

"Μια Απίθανη... Απίθανη Πτήση"

"空前絕後滿天飛"

"L'aereo più pazzo del mondo"

"Titta vi flyger"

"空前絕後滿天飛"

"Airplane"

"Kentucky Fried Airplane!"

Keywords: passenger, airplane, post traumatic stress disorder, los angeles, california, stewardess, taxi driver, fear of flying, alcohol abuse, air controller, alcohol, inflatable life raft, medicine, autopilot, parody

Budget: 3,500,000 USD

Revenue: 83,453,539 USD (= 2,384%)