Direction: Jim Abrahams

Direction David Zucker · Jim Abrahams · Jerry Zucker · Joe Dante

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Alan North · Rex Hamilton · Ed Williams

Synopsis Sight-gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for later very successful "Naked Gun" movies.

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Val Kilmer · Lucy Gutteridge · Omar Sharif · Christopher Villiers

Synopsis Top Secret! (1984) follows Nick Rivers, a rock and roll singer, who travels to East Germany for a cultural festival. Unbeknownst to him, he becomes entangled in a dangerous resistance movement against a oppressive regime. Along the way, Nick meets...

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Robert Hays · Julie Hagerty · Leslie Nielsen · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis Airplane! (1980) is a hilarious spoof of disaster films, following ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker, who must overcome his fear of flying to save the day. When food poisoning incapacitates the crew and passengers aboard a commercial flight, Ted, a nervous...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Charlie Sheen · Valeria Golino · Cary Elwes · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis Hot Shots! (1991) is a hilarious parody of military action films, particularly "Top Gun." The story follows Topper Harley, a talented but unstable fighter pilot, recalled by the Navy to complete a dangerous mission. As he returns to duty, Topper...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Charlie Sheen · Lloyd Bridges · Valeria Golino · Brenda Bakke

Synopsis Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) follows the hilarious adventures of Topper Harley, a reluctant but skilled fighter pilot, as he is called back into action. This time, he must lead a daring rescue mission to save American hostages captured in...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Meryl Streep · Fred Ward · Seth Adkins · Allison Janney

Synopsis When Lori Reimuller (Meryl Streep) learns that her young son Robbie (Seth Adkins) has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she...

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Danny DeVito · Bette Midler · Judge Reinhold · Helen Slater

Synopsis In this fiendishly funny comedy from the creators of AIRPLANE! Loathsome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his shrill wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater), Sam cries tears of...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Bette Midler · Lily Tomlin · Fred Ward · Edward Herrmann

Synopsis 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...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Winona Ryder · Jeff Daniels · Dinah Manoff · Sachi Parker

Synopsis Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her ex-husband Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Jay Mohr · Lloyd Bridges · Christina Applegate · Billy Burke

Synopsis 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...