6 Movies Directed by Jim Abrahams

Airplane!

Airplane!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-07-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (146848 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Abrahams (written for the screen by)

David Zucker (written for the screen by)

Jerry Zucker (written for the screen by)

Fullplot:

Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.

Ruthless People

Ruthless People

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-06-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (20483 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Dale Launer

O. Henry (story)

Fullplot:

Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was supposed to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn't die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and he tells his girlfriend Carol what he is going to do. He then on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she's not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn't know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara's more lethal. And what Stone doesn't know is that Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara's body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara's not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn't bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it's for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn't kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.

Big Business

Big Business

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-06-10

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (8305 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Dori Pierson

Marc Reid Rubel

Fullplot:

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-07-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (72409 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Genres:

ActionComedy

Fullplot:

Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-05-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (61204 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Genres:

ActionComedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Abrahams (characters)

Pat Proft (characters)

Jim Abrahams

Pat Proft

Fullplot:

Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies.

Jane Austen's Mafia!

Jane Austen's Mafia!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-07-24

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (11972 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Abrahams

Greg Norberg

Michael McManus

Fullplot:

Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey's, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

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