

Airplane!
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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7.3/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $83.5M
- Language
- English
- chicago, illinois
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- airplane
- cataclysm
- nun
- guitar
- alcohol
- stewardess
- taxi driver
- passenger
- fear of flying
- pilot
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG27 Jun 1980
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical152 Jul 1980
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG12 Dec 1980
CanadaCA
- TheatricalA27 Jun 1980
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1212 Dec 1980
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP23 Sept 1980
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1213 Nov 1980
- Physical023 Jul 2020
GreeceGR
- TheatricalPG12 Dec 1980
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1620 Aug 1988
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1215 Aug 1980
ItalyIT
- Theatrical30 Oct 1980
JapanJP
- TheatricalG13 Dec 1980
Frequently asked questions
Airplane! was released on 27 June 1980.
Audience reviews
4- S8/10
schoosskyler
11/4/2017
An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wordplay and referential humor. I see vestiges of this film in everything from 'The Hangover' to 'The Office'. If at a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/9/2022
Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have been stricken with food poisoning and when the cockpit it wiped-out, it falls to him to bravely take the joystick and try to land in Chicago. Luckily, his ex-girlfriend "E…
- D9/10
drystyx
4/18/2023
Surely, this is hilarious. Surely. A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again. This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew is too sick to fly, so a nerve racked ex pilot needs to fly the plane. Lots of Monty Python style "unreal" events to make this even funnier, along with the parody of cult…
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
4/4/2024
**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.** I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm reduced to the insignificance of knowing little). However, as far as I can understand, I think it was one of the first nonsense American satires, heavily inspired by Mon…
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