Screenplay: Jim Abrahams

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jim Abrahams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Police Squad! (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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.

7.2

595 votes

7.2

595 votes

Top Secret!

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

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

Synopsis Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops along the way. East Germany is planning a cultural festival,...

7.1

33K votes

7.1

33K votes

Airplane!

1980 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

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

Synopsis The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself. The humor may be low and...

6.4

87K votes

6.4

87K votes

The Naked Gun

1988 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Zucker

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Priscila Presley · George Kennedy · Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis A slapstick spoof of police thrillers and action films by the makers of "Airplane." Lieutenant Frank Drebin, comic cop and master car-crasher, must protect Queen Elizabeth II, when world terrorists target her for assassination during her visit to the United...

6.2

24K votes

6.2

24K votes

5.9

18K votes

5.7

15K votes

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Landis

Cast Donald Sutherland · Marilyn Joi · Saul Kahan · David Zucker

Synopsis A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

5.6

567 votes

5.6

567 votes

Jane Austen's Mafia!

1998 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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...

4.6

6K votes

4.6

6K votes

Scary Movie 4

2006 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction David Zucker

Cast Anna Faris · Regina Hall · Simon Rex · Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) discovers the house of the elderly lady whom she is looking after is haunted by the ghost of a little boy, and sets out to solve the mystery of his death. Meanwhile, Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko)...

4.0

20K votes

4.0

20K votes

The Naked Gun

2025 · Movie · United States

Direction Akiva Schaffer

Cast Liam Neeson · Kevin Durand · Paul Walter Hauser · Pamela Anderson

Synopsis Based off the widely popular comedy franchise The Naked Gun and television series "Police Squad!" by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.

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