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Synopsis: Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines) is a 1980 American parody film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
Genre: Comedy
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
PG
Year:
1980
88 min
4,679 Views


Texaco Service Man opens hood and checks dipstick.

BASTA:

If it decides to push over into the Great

Lakes it could get plenty soupy. How about

the southern route, around Tulsa?

OVEUR:

I double checked the terminal forecast and

winds aloft. IFR ceilings all the way.

Oveur gives charge card to Texaco Man.

BASTA:

Where do they top out?

OVEUR:

Well, there's some light scattered cover

at twenty thousand with icing around

eighteen.

BASTA:

Looks like the original flight plan over

Denver is still the best bet.

Oveur signs charge form and gives it to Texaco Man.

OVEUR:

Denver it is.

ROGER MURDOCK enters. He is played by a famous athlete.

MURDOCK:

Sorry, Clarence. Latest weather report

shows everything socked in from Salt Lake

to Lincoln.

OVEUR:

(to Murdock)

Hi, Roger. Good to have you aboard.

Victor, this is Roger Murdock.

BASTA:

How do you do, Roger?

Texaco Man hands receipt to Oveur.

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - BOARDING AREA - NIGHT

Stewardesses Elaine and RANDY are greeting boarding

passengers including the Hammens and SISTER ANGELINA who is

carrying a guitar.

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

HARI KRISHNA #1

Do you believe those goddamn Steelers? Can

you imagine blitzing on third and long

with two minutes in the game?

HARI KRISHNA #2

Well, hell, they couldn't stay in zone

coverage with Dallas running swing

patterns!

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

JACK:

What did you think of 'Great

Expectations?'

SHIRLEY:

Well, it wasn't all that I had hoped.

EXT. RUNWAY - NIGHT

A SOLDIER and GIRL are tearfully embracing at the base of

the stairs leading into the plane.

GIRL:

Oh, Bill, I'm going to miss you so much.

SOLDIER:

You promise you'll write.

GIRL:

Every day.

AIRPORT STEWARD:

Better get on board, son.

INT. TERMINAL BUILDING - GATE 89 - NIGHT

Striker approaches check-in counter.

STRIKER:

Can you tell me if Elaine Dickinson is on

this flight?

She looks at her list.

CHECK-IN LADY

Well, the whole flight crew has boarded.

Yes. She is on board.

STRIKER:

I'd like one ticket to Chicago. No

baggage!

EXT. TERMINAL BUILDING - PASSENGER LOADING AREA - NIGHT

The Businessman is patiently waiting in Striker's cab.

INT. TERMINAL BUILDING - GATE 89 - NIGHT

CHECK-IN LADY

Smoking or non-smoking?

STRIKER:

Smoking, please.

She hands him a smoldering ticket, and he walks out the

door.

EXT. TERMINAL - NIGHT

Striker emerges and freezes in terror.

STRIKER'S POV - THE AIRPLANE - NIGHT

DRAMATIC MUSIC.

CLOSEUP - STRIKER - NIGHT

agonizing over war recollections. SUPERIMPOSE ROARING

fighter planes. SUPER FADES OUT. Striker musters his courage

and walks toward airplane.

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

BLACK DUDE #l

Shi',man, tha' honkey mo'fo' mess wi' my

ol' lady, man I rap tha' dude upside his

head, man.

SUBTITLES APPEAR ON SCREEN: "GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD

STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM."

BLACK DUDE #2

Yeah, man, he ain't never goin' come on

layin' no pig rap off you, man.

SUBTITLES APPEAR ON SCREEN: "YES, THERE IS TRUTH IN WHAT YOU

SAY. HOWEVER, I THINK HE MAY BE MISLEADING YOU."

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

Randy is taking Striker's ticket.

RANDY:

Fourteen-B. It's halfway down on your

right.

STRIKER:

Thank you.

As Striker sits down he sees Elaine, who is unaware he is on

board.

STRIKER'S POV - NIGHT

Elaine is handing out pillows. We HEAR A DING.

INSERT - LIGHTED WARNING SIGNS

"NO SMOKING

EL NO A YOU SMOKO"

"FASTEN SEAT BELTS

PUTANA DA SEATBELTZ"

He fastens his seat belt and looks nervously out the window.

The Elderly Woman next to him notices.

MRS. ELDERLY

Nervous?

STRIKER:

Yes.

MRS. ELDERLY

First time?

STRIKER:

No. I've been nervous lots of times. I

used to be a pilot myself...during the

war.

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

Elaine approaches Mrs. Davis and Lisa.

ELAINE:

We'll be taking off real soon so we better

fasten you in tight.

LISA:

Thank you. Oh Mother, this is so exciting.

MRS. DAVIS

I know, but remember you must get some

rest.

ELAINE:

That's good advice. You relax and I'll be

back after we take off.

INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

MILTON, an eight year old boy wearing a conservative coat

and tie, fastens his seat belt and begins reading his

"Business Monthly" magazine.

He sees BERNICE, a seven year old girl, in the aisle and

looks her up and down.

EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT

DRAMATIC MUSIC. Engines one and two REV UP.

INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

Murdock and Oveur look toward left wing.

EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT

ENGINES three and four REV UP.

INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

Murdock and Oveur look toward right wing.

EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT

Two more ENGINES REV UP.

INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

Murdock and Oveur look toward left wing and do a double

take.

EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT

Two more ENGINES REV UP.

INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

Murdock and Oveur are confused and counting on their

fingers.

EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT

Stairs are removed from airplane. The Soldier is in the open

doorway waving good-bye to his tearful girlfriend at the

base of the plane.

INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

OVEUR:

Two-zero-niner to ground control. We are

loaded and ready to taxi.

EXT. TOWER - NIGHT

GROUND CONTROL (v.o.)

Roger, two-zero-niner. You are third in

line for takeoff...Air Israel, taxi into

position.

EXT. RUNWAY - NIGHT

An Air Israel airplane with beard and pais, wearing a

yarmulka and tallis.

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ames S. "Jim" Abrahams (born May 10, 1944) is an American movie director and writer. more…

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