Film

Airplane! 1980

Directed by Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams

  • Comedy
  • 88 min
  • PG

What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

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

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Comic, ironic, cool and unpretentious.

  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • character-ledplot-driven

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87 profiled raters. Loved most by The Comfort Seekers; disliked most by The Genre Devotees.

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