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Airplane!

1980•1h 28m•Comedy

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Story Line

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

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

Top Cast

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

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Rating

7.3/ 10

Release Date

1980-06-27

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Comedy

Part of the Series

Airplane Collection

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User Reviews (4)

schoosskyler

8/10

•11/4/2017

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 bef...

CinemaSerf

7/10

•7/9/2022

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 b...

drystyx

9/10

•4/18/2023

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 i...

Filipe Manuel Neto