Movies directed by Jim Abrahams

Hot Shots! (1991)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlie Sheen | Cary Elwes | Valeria Golino | Lloyd Bridges | Kevin Dunn | Jon Cryer | William O'Leary | Kristy Swanson | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Bill Erwin | Heidi Swedberg | Bruce A. Young | Ryan Stiles | Rino Thunder | Mark Arnott
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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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.

Airplane! (1980)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Lloyd Bridges | Peter Graves | Julie Hagerty | Robert Hays | Leslie Nielsen | Lorna Patterson | Robert Stack | Stephen Stucker | Otto | Frank Ashmore | Jonathan Banks | Craig Berenson | Barbara Billingsley
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker’s aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Mohr | Billy Burke | Christina Applegate | Pamela Gidley | Olympia Dukakis | Lloyd Bridges | Jason Fuchs | Joe Viterelli | Tony Lo Bianco | Blake Hammond | Philip Suriano | Vincent Pastore | Marisol Nichols | Carol Ann Susi | Gregory Sierra
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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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?

Ruthless People (1986)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny DeVito | Bette Midler | Judge Reinhold | Helen Slater | Anita Morris | Bill Pullman | William G. Schilling | Art Evans | Clarence Felder | J. E. Freeman | Gary Riley | Phyllis Applegate | Jeannine Bisignano | J.P. Bumstead | Jon Cutler
Directors: Jim Abrahams | Jerry Zucker | David Zucker
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Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was suppose to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn’t die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and is 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 his girlfriend, 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.

Top Secret! (1984)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Val Kilmer | Lucy Gutteridge | Peter Cushing | Jeremy Kemp | Christopher Villiers | Warren Clarke | Harry Ditson | Jim Carter | Eddie Tagoe | Omar Sharif | Tristram Jellinek | Billy J. Mitchell | Major Wiley | Gertan Klauber | Richard Mayes
Directors: Jim Abrahams | Jerry Zucker | David Zucker
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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlie Sheen | Lloyd Bridges | Valeria Golino | Richard Crenna | Brenda Bakke | Miguel Ferrer | Rowan Atkinson | Jerry Haleva | David Wohl | Mitch Ryan | Michael Colyar | Ryan Stiles | Rosemary Johnston | Ben Lemon | Buck McDancer
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want 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.