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Release Date:
2 July 1980 (USA)
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Tagline:
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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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Food Poisoning
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Airport
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Basketball
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 1 win
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5 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(16 articles)
Movie with James McAvoy = nice move, Anna Kendrick.
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 6 January 2010, 12:45 PM, PST)
Production On ‘FlashForward’ Halted
(From Screen Rant. 24 November 2009, 1:36 PM, PST)
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 6 January 2010, 12:45 PM, PST)
Production On ‘FlashForward’ Halted
(From Screen Rant. 24 November 2009, 1:36 PM, PST)
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"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
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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 |
Additional Details
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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Runtime:
88 min
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Color:
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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According to the soundtrack album cover (Regency Records, 1980), Johnny's last name is Hinshaw. This can actually be heard clearly in the movie, when McCroskey is speaking to the reporters and tells "Hinshaw" to take over. Johnny then steps in and describes the "pretty white airplane" to the press.
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Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Dr. Rumak is treating the sick female passenger, he is removing eggs from her mouth. In one shot where he removes and egg, cracks it and a little bird flies away, the woman is startled and in her half-open mouth you can clearly see that an egg is already there, making it obvious that she was releasing the same egg time and again; equally obviously, then, the doctor was picking up additional eggs from underneath the tray table.
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Quotes:
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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:
Spoofed in "The IT Crowd: Yesterday's Jam (#1.1)" (2006)
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Soundtrack:
Respect
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Is this the funniest movie ever made?more
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In a tense moment where Ted Striker (Robert Hays) needs to land an airplane where the pilots (Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) have fallen sick, and several passengers need to get off the airplane for various reasons, all Striker can think to himself (with an echo in his mind, of course) is "I've got to concentrate... concentrate... concentrate... I've got to concentrate... concentrate... concentrate... Hello?... hello... hello... Echo... echo... echo... Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota... Mota... Mota..." That pretty much sums up the seriousness of Airplane!, the lampoon of the 1970s Airport movies, and pretty much every other disaster movie pumped out by Hollywood. The same guys who pieced together the Naked Gun movies write and direct this silly movie. Most of the jokes need to be seen to be properly experienced, the first rate actors are what brings the laughs. Robert Stack plays it straight, over-the-top straight, as a problem solver for the airline who happens to wear 2 pairs of sunglasses at all times. Stack's comedic timing and deadpan delivery bring out some of the biggest laughs of the film. Lloyd Bridges is the over-worked, over-stressed traffic controller who has picked the wrong week to stop drinking, smoking, and sniffing glue. And Leslie Neilson plays a doctor who has an acute sense for the obvious, surely one who could save the passengers and airline crew if they land safely, just don't call him Shirley. A few cheap laughs, a few misses, but over all, a pretty funny movie. If you like The Naked Gun, you'll like Airplane!