“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...

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Liam Neeson‘s action era may be ending, but his comedy run is just starting in the newly released film The Naked Gun. Fortunately, most of the films by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker are readily ...

I'm about to ask three guys how they made a funny movie 43 years ago that still gets quoted today. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "AIRPLANE!") KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: (As Roger) We have clearance, Clarence. PETER ...

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