Airplane!
What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
- Director
- Jerry Zucker
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Tension
- Worldwide
- $83M
Who's in it
Cast
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Movie DNA
How Airplane! actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Airplane! returned 23.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $4M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $83M
- Release date
- Jun 27, 1980
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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