Airplane! (1980)

Directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker · Comedy

Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Jim Abrahams, Jonathan Banks, Stephen Stucker, Frank Ashmore, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Mae E. Campbell, Ethel Merman, Jimmie Walker, Jill Whelan, Nora Meerbaum, Kenneth Tobey, James Hong, Michelle Stacy, David Leisure, Ann Nelson, Al White, Nicholas Pryor, Cyril O'Reilly, Ted Chapman, Jesse Emmett, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Amy Gibson, Marcy Goldman, Bob Gorman, Rossie Harris, Maurice Hill, David Hollander, Howard Honig, Gregory Itzin, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence, Zachary Lewis, Barbara Mallory, Maureen McGovern, Mary Mercier, Len Mooy, Laura Nix, John O'Leary, Bill Porter, Conrad E. Palmisano, Mallory Sandler, Robert Starr, Barbara Stuart, Lee Terri, William Tregoe, Hatsuo Uda, Herb Voland, John David Wilder, Windy, Jason Wingreen, Louise Yaffe, Charlotte Zucker, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Kitten Natividad, Larry Blake, Paula Moody, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Henry Wills, Joyce Mandel, Gene LeBell, Susan Breslau

IHBM8Very good

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

My review · Reviewed 10/27/2007

I re-watched this recently for the first time in many decades. I had told my kids that it was the funniest movie ever made, so the bar was high. All these years later, it still mostly holds up. The movie was so original that it isn't surprising that other movies may have eventually done it better. I still have more quotes from this movie than any other.

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