Overview:
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.| Status: | Released (1980-07-02) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award3 wins & 7 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $83,453,539 |
| Screen: | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
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- 2177: Lloyd Bridges - Steve McCroskey
- 9111: Peter Graves - Captain Clarence Oveur
- 14418: Lorna Patterson - Randy
Crews
- 12936: Jim Abrahams - Director - Directing
- 12987: David Zucker - Director - Directing
- 3415: Jerry Zucker - Director - Directing
- 7723: Jon Davison - Producer - Production
- 7182: Elmer Bernstein - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 14431: Joseph F. Biroc - Director of Photography - Camera
- 8882: Joel Thurm - Casting - Production
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Reviews
schoosskyler
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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 c ....
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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 a ....
Continue reading ->drystyx
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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 rack ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**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 ....
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