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Airplane! (1980)
From the minds of the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams, the 1980 satire film Airplane! parodies the 1957 disaster movie Zero Hour! and the 1970s Airport franchise. It kickstarted Leslie Nielsen's comedy career and tested the comedic skills of Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.
Airplane!
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- Director
- Jim Abrahams , David Zucker , Jerry Zucker
- Release Date
- July 2, 1980
- Studio(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Lloyd Bridges , Peter Graves , Julie Hagerty , Robert Hays , Leslie Nielsen
- Writers
- Arthur Hailey , Hall Bartlett , John C. Champion , Jim Abrahams , David Zucker , Jerry Zucker
- Runtime
- 88 minutes
- Budget
- $3.5 million
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