Airplane! [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents a Howard W. Koch Production ; produced by Jon Davison ; written for the screen and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker.
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FilmPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Music, Elmer Bernstein ; film editor, Patrick Kennedy ; director of photography, Joseph Biroc.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| DVD | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | DVDs | DVDs | DVD AIR | Available | 36748002430108 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty). Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to Striker to land the plane, with the help of a glue-sniffing air traffic controller (Lloyd Bridges) and Striker's vengeful former captain (Robert Stack), who must both talk him down. Along the way, we meet a clutch of stock disaster movie passengers like the guitar-strumming nun, a sick little girl, a frightened old lady, and two African-American travelers whose "jive" has to be subtitled. Leslie Nielsen portrays the plane's doctor, launching a new phase of the actor's career that carried him through the next two decades in several similarly comedic roles. The trio of directors Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker responsible for the film would eventually go on to solo careers, but not before making Top Secret! and Ruthless People. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Widescreen version.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
Music, Elmer Bernstein ; film editor, Patrick Kennedy ; director of photography, Joseph Biroc.
Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker.
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal. Now, it is up to him to land the airplane safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion to piloting is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured--right now.
MPAA rating: PG. ; Canadian Home Video rating 14A.
English (Dolby 5.1 surround) or French (mono) language soundtracks with optional English subtitles.