Airplane!
Released Date
July 2, 1980
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Genre
Comedy
Rating
PG
Budget
$3,500,000
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$83,453,539 + $0 = $83,453,539
$83,453,539 + $0 = $83,453,539
Cast
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
Leslie Nielsen,
Jimmie Walker,
James Hong,
Ethel Merman,
Jonathan Banks,
Robert Stack,
Lloyd Bridges,
Peter Graves,
Julie Hagerty,
Barbara Billingsley,
Robert Hays,
Joyce Bulifant,
Maureen McGovern,
Jill Whelan,
David Leisure,
Jason Wingreen,
Kenneth Tobey,
Lorna Patterson,
Barbara Stuart,
Al White,
Frank Ashmore
About Airplane!
A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
About
Parody disaster film from David and Jerry Zucker which borrows the plot and characters of the 1957 film Zero Hour! It features a man with a fear of flying tasked with making sure a plane lands safely when the pilots become sick.
Trivia
The film is alternatively titled Flying High! The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy. It was a Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.