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Airplane!

Airplane!

7.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

5,009

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1980

Release Year

88 min

Runtime

Comedy

Overview

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

Keywords

chicago, illinois
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
airplane
cataclysm
nun
guitar
alcohol
stewardess
taxi driver
passenger
fear of flying
pilot
medicine
air controller
landing
saxophone
autopilot
parody
spoof
food poisoning
los angeles, california
alcohol abuse
aftercreditsstinger
disaster movie
inflatable life raft
anarchic comedy
anxious
dignified
joyful

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Reviews(4)

8.3avg rating
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schoosskyler

November 4, 2017

8
8/10

An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wo

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 9, 2022

7
7/10

Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have been stricken with food poisoning and when the cock

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drystyx

drystyx

April 18, 2023

9
9/10

Surely, this is hilarious. Surely. A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again. This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew is too sick to fly, so a nerve racked ex pilot need

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

April 4, 2024

9
9/10

**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.** I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm reduced to the insignificance of knowing little).

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