Airplane!

Not to be confused with Airplane.

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]

Airplane!
Directed by	Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker
Screenplay by	Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker
Based on	uncredited: Flight into Danger by Arthur Hailey Zero Hour! by Arthur Hailey Hall Bartlett John Champion
Produced by	Jon Davison
Starring	Robert Hays Julie Hagerty
Cinematography	Joseph Biroc
Edited by	Patrick Kennedy
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Production companies	Paramount Pictures Howard W. Koch Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	June 27, 1980 (1980-06-27) (Toronto and Buffalo) July 2, 1980 (1980-07-02) (Wide)
Running time	87 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3.5 million[2]
Box office	$171 million