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Release Date:
2 July 1980 (USA)
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You've read the ad, now see the movie! more
Plot:
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley. full summary | full synopsis
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Airplane
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Pilot
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Food Poisoning
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Airport
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Basketball
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
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5 nominations
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NewsDesk:
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TV Ratings: ‘V’ Down 27% In Second Week
(From Screen Rant. 12 November 2009, 10:05 PM, PST)
Movie Reviews: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 17 August 2009, 4:25 AM, PDT)
(From Screen Rant. 12 November 2009, 10:05 PM, PST)
Movie Reviews: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 17 August 2009, 4:25 AM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | ... | Roger Murdock (as Kareem Abdul-Jabaar) | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | McCroskey | |
| Peter Graves | ... | Captain Oveur | |
| Julie Hagerty | ... | Elaine | |
| Robert Hays | ... | Ted Striker | |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | Dr. Rumack | |
| Lorna Patterson | ... | Randy | |
| Robert Stack | ... | Rex Kramer | |
| Stephen Stucker | ... | Johnny | |
| Otto | ... | Himself | |
| Jim Abrahams | ... | Religious Zealot #6 | |
| Frank Ashmore | ... | Victor Basta | |
| Jonathan Banks | ... | Gunderson | |
| Craig Berenson | ... | Paul Carey | |
| Barbara Billingsley | ... | Jive Lady |
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Also Known As:
Flying High! (New Zealand: English title) (Philippines: English title)
Flying High (Australia)
Kentucky Fried Airplane (USA) (working title)
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Flying High (Australia)
Kentucky Fried Airplane (USA) (working title)
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88 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Spain:13 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
South Korea:15 |
UK:15 |
UK:PG (2001 re-rating) |
USA:PG (Certificate #25740) |
Sweden:11 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Finland:K-12 |
Iceland:L |
Ireland:12 |
Netherlands:AL |
Norway:11 (video rating) |
Norway:12 (original rating) |
UK:A (original rating) |
West Germany:12
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The music for the love scenes with Elaine and Ted was taken from The Hunters (1958) where Robert Mitchum plays a fighter pilot and May Britt his lover.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Elaine reports the plane's speed she correctly reports it in miles per hour, when Ted does the same, he reads it as knots.
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Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
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Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#7.26)" (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Theme
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It is my understanding that there are still a few people in the world that haven't seen "Airplane!" yet.
Those people probably are still waiting for electricity, indoor plumbing and all the other great advances in humanity, too.
To see "Airplane!" is to take part in the great move to subvert all self-importance in movies, which this film does with great relish (and plenty of corn).
You get a chance to see such "serious" actors as Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen subvert themselves and their own personnae into near oblivion thanks to the writing/directing team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. Not to mention visual and verbal send-ups of darn near every movie that ever took place in the air, and a few that didn't, but should have.
Kudos to Leslie Nielsen, who with this movie gave himself the greatest reinvention of any actor this century. At one time, he was the very model of stoic sensibility.
I swear. Seriously.
A looooong time ago.
Ten stars. A laugh riot.
And I STILL think this would make a great in-flight movie.