AIRPLANE! (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Plot: An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley. Stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen; ; A tongue-in-cheek spoof of the disaster genre. ; A former wartime flight commander has to take control of a jet after every pilot aboard comes down with food poisoning -- even though he's now too scared to fly. ; ; The airplane's passengers include a wild assortment of comic loonies. ; ; The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it, AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot (who has a drinking problem and is afraid of flying) must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing. No disaster flick cliche is left unroasted, and the musical score itself takes a less than reverent look at overly melodramatic compositions.
• Cast: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Otto, Jim Abrahams, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Mae E. Campbell, Ted Chapman, Jesse Emmett, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Amy Gibson, Marcy Goldman, Bob Gorman, Rossie Harris, Maurice Hill, David Hollander, James Hong, Howard Honig, Gregory Itzin, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence, David Leisure, Zachary Lewis, Barbara Mallory, Maureen McGovern, Nora Meerbaum, Mary Mercier, Ethel Merman, Len Mooy, Ann Nelson, Laura Nix, John O'Leary, Cyril O'Reilly, Bill Porter, Nicholas Pryor, Conrad E. Palmisano, Mallory Sandler, Michelle Stacy, Robert Starr, Barbara Stuart, Lee Terri, Kenneth Tobey, William Tregoe, Hatsuo Uda, Herb Voland, Jimmie Walker, Jill Whelan, Al White, John David Wilder, Windy, Jason Wingreen, Louise Yaffe, Charlotte Zucker, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Larry Blake, Susan Breslau, William Duell, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Leslie Hoffman, Bill Kirchenbauer, Paula Marie Moody, Kitten Natividad, Robert Nevin, Patrick Reynolds, Herb Vigran
• Director: Jim Abrahams
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Paramount Pictures Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie