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Not to be confused with Airplane.
Airplane!
Directed by
Produced byJon Davison
Screenplay by
  • Jim Abrahams
  • David Zucker
  • Jerry Zucker
Based onuncredited:
Starring
Music byElmer Bernstein
CinematographyJoseph Biroc
Edited byPatrick Kennedy
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • June 27, 1980 (1980-06-27) (Toronto and Buffalo)
  • July 2, 1980 (1980-07-02) (Wide)
Running time
87 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.5 million[2]
Box office$171 million

Airplane! is an American parody comedy movie made in 1980. It was written and directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams. It is a parody of the 1970 movie Airport as well as the 1957 movie Zero Hour!. It is was picked as the 6th most funny movie in Bravo's '100 Funniest Movies'.[3] In 2007, people in the United Kingdom voted Airplane! was the second greatest comedy ever made.[4] In 2010, Airplane! was added by the Library of Congress to the United States National Film Registry since it was important to the American culture and movie history.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Airplane!. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Airplane! (1980) - Financial Information. The Numbers. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies of All Time (December 31, 2013)Bravo. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Life of Brian named best comedy". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4573444.stm. Retrieved January 18, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Hollywood Blockbusters, Independent Films and Shorts Selected for 2010 National Film Registry. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-05-18.

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