Airplane! (titled Flying High!

in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan an

d 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 st
ars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Llo
yd 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 H
our!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters,[4] as well as m
any elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of surreal humor a
nd its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
Airplane! was a critical and financial success,
th America alone, against a budget of just $3.5
received the Writers Guild of America Award for
ions for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.

grossing over $83 million in Nor

million.[5] The film's creators
Best Adapted Comedy, and nominat
Picture
Musical or Comedy and a

In the years since its release, Airplane!'s reputation has grown substantially.
The film was ranked sixth on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.[6] In a 2007 survey by
Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, it was judged the second greatest comedy film
of all time, after Monty Python's Life of Brian.[7]
In 2008, Airplane! was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Mo
vies of All Time and in 2012 was voted number one in The 50 Funniest Comedies Ev
er poll.[8] In 2010 it was selected for preservation in the National Film Regist
ry by the Library of Congress.[9][10]