Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams ...
“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...
Forty years ago this month, three guys from Shorewood released a movie that helped reshape funny in America. When "Airplane!" debuted in July 1980, it put Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker ...
NPR's A Martinez talks to David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed Airplane!, about their new book Surely You... New book examines the making of the 1980 comedy ...