Airplane!
| Airplane! | |
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| Directed by | |
| Screenplay by |
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| Based on | uncredited:
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| Produced by | Jon Davison |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
| Edited by | Patrick Kennedy |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 87 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Airplane!". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ↑ "Airplane! (1980) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on June 20, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
- ↑ "Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies of All Time". Bravo. December 31, 2013. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Life of Brian named best comedy". BBC News. Archived from the original on December 10, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ "Hollywood Blockbusters, Independent Films and Shorts Selected for 2010 National Film Registry". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
