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Airplane!

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

7.3(5,312)19801h 28m15

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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Status
Released
Budget
$3.5M
Box office
$83.5M
Language
English
Part of Airplane Collection · 2 films
  • chicago, illinois
  • post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
  • airplane
  • cataclysm
  • nun
  • guitar
  • alcohol
  • stewardess
  • taxi driver
  • passenger
  • fear of flying
  • pilot

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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

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Airplane! was released on 27 June 1980.

Audience reviews

4
  • S

    schoosskyler

    11/4/2017

    8/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/9/2022

    7/10

    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…

  • D

    drystyx

    4/18/2023

    9/10

    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…

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    4/4/2024

    9/10

    **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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