Jim Abrahams
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Parody of airplane disaster films in which a former pilot gets his nerve back when he has to land a plane on which everyone has food poisoning. Disc 2. In a spoof of disaster films, an airplane is out of control and the crew struggles to save it. Worst of all, they are out of coffee.
4) Airplane!
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parody of airplane disaster films in which a former pilot gets his nerve back when he has to land a plane on which everyone has food poisoning.
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the...