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.

Keywords

• Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
• Escape to the 80's
• Movies you need to watch once in your life
• Paramount Pictures
• Satirical films

Actors

• Robert Hays
• Julie Hagerty
• Leslie Nielsen
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Lloyd Bridges

Director

• Jerry Zucker
• Jim Abrahams
• David Zucker