Leslie Nielsen plays Dr. Rumack in the 1980 comedy "Airplane!", written and directed by Shorewood natives David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

"Airplane!" director David Zucker takes issue with what people are offended by, and says he wouldn't be able to make his hit movie today in the same way he did in the 1980s.

5 things you surely might not know about 'Airplane!', the 1980 comedy classic made by 3 Milwaukeeans Chris Foran Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 0:05 ...

That's why it's so funny. Movie comedies these days are so hung up on being contemporary, radical, outspoken, and cynically satirical that they sometimes forget to be funny. That's 1980.

The actors’ deadpan deliveries and the movie’s over-the-top slapstick gags contributed to what Jim Abrahams calls the “endearing legacy” of Airplane! “All those guys [the actors] … had spent their ...

At the Bruin premiere of “Airplane!” (Courtesy of the authors) The humor in the film works because you raise stupidity to an art form. There are sight gags, reference to other films, wordplay ...

But the heart of the book is the story of "Airplane!,” which cost a mere $3.5 million and raked in nearly $200 million at theaters 43 years ago. It became a cultural phenomenon that drew fans ...