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Jun 21, 2024 · Airplane!, American comedy film released in 1980 that parodies the disaster film genre with a story about a former pilot who must land a commercial plane after the passengers and pilots fall ill. Written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, the film combines content from
His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), now a stewardess at Trans American Airlines, breaks off her relationship with him before her rostered flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. In order to regain her love, Ted overcomes his fear of flying, abandons his taxicab and buys a ticket on the same flight.
Aug 23, 2003 · When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
The laughs don’t stop in this classic disaster movie spoof about an airplane in peril with an off-the-wall crew and cast of passengers in crisis.
Sep 2, 2011 · 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.
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Airplane! (1980) was a trend-setting, zany, hilarious comedy - using as its core material the airplane disaster film as the spoof's stepping stone, borrowing from the subplots of heavy-handed films in the 1970s decade with all-star casts, such as the Airport film franchise (Airport (1970), Airport ...
