Airplane!

About Airplane!

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

Airplane! is a 1980 comedy film directed by David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. Robert Hays appears as Ted Striker, Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson, Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Roger Murdock.

It runs 88 minutes and was released in June 1980. Written by David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. It comes from Howard W. Koch Productions and Paramount Pictures.

Shelv files it under parody, airplane, anxious, and spoof. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Essential. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 5,291 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

Scary Movie, Bee Movie, and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! make useful companions to Airplane!. It belongs to Airplane Collection.