Julie Hagerty
/Actor
Lloyd Bridges
/Actor
Robert Hays
/Actor
Robert Stack
/Actor
Peter Graves
/Actor
Lorna Patterson
/Actor
Leslie Nielsen
/Actor
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
/Actor
Jim Abrahams
/Director
David Zucker
/Director
July 2, 1980
Comedy
The persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/stewardess/co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... and more. Their hilarious high jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks, religious zealots, television commercials, romantic love... the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next.