Tagline: What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit two tall buildings at a single bound?
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
Cast: 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
Release: 1980-07-02
Runtime: 88
Plot: The persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/stewardess/co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... and more. Their hilarious high jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks, religious zealots, television commercials, romantic love... the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next.
