Jim Abrahams

Filmography

Jim Abrahams - filmography

Mafia! on DVD (1998)
Starring: Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Jim Abrahams
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The director of Airplane and Hot Shots brings us this spoof of the "organized crime family" film.

59% from 584 members

First Do No Harm on DVD (1997)
Starring: Fred Ward, Meryl Streep, Seth Adkins
Director: Jim Abrahams
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In this alternately heartbreaking and uplifting drama inspired by actual events, a small town Midwest family discovers that their youngest son suffers from epilepsy. Left without hope after their insurance runs out, the mother presses on, studies everything she can find about the illness, and, ..read more »

65% from 430 members

Hot Shots Part Deux on DVD (1993)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino
Director: Jim Abrahams
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A spot-on parody of TOP GUN, HOT SHOTS! follows the expolits of ace pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen), who is obsessed with living down his father's disastrous reputation and winning the heart of beautiful psychiatrist Ramada (Valeria Golino) from professional and romantic rival Kent Gregory (..read more »

68% from 3,300 members

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1991)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Thomas Wilson Brown
Director: Jim Abrahams
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The townsfolk of Clyde eagerly await the return of Roxy Carmichael who left town fifteen years earlier. An eccentric teenager called Dinky believes that Roxy is her real mother. Everyone waits with baited breath...

61% from 184 members
Not available for rental

Hot Shots on DVD (1991)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino
Director: Jim Abrahams
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Charlie Sheen stars in this TOP GUN spoof by the folks who created AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN, playing Topper Harley, a heartthrob fighter pilot assigned to the Navy on a secret mission, the details of which never entirely become clear. The jokes come fast and furious as Topper attempts to clear his ..read more »

71% from 3,326 members

Big Business on DVD (1988)
Starring: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Edward Herrmann
Director: Jim Abrahams
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Two sets of female twins are mixed up at birth. One set becomes the chief executives of a Manhattan conglomerate, while the other set succeeds at becoming poor country bumpkins. They all accidentally meet up at New York's Plaza Hotel, and from then on it's chaos all the way...

66% from 1,943 member

Ruthless People on DVD (1986)
Starring: Danny De Vito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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A comedy based on the rag trade, where new designs are fair game for ruthless competitors. A fashion millionaire's wife is kidnapped, but when the kidnappers try to extort money they find that he has gone out celebrating with his mistress.

68% from 2,962 members

Top Secret on DVD (1984)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an Elvis movie and a World War II underground resistance thriller. ..read more »

64% from 4,674 members

Airplane! on DVD (1980)
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it, AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot (who has a drinking problem and is afraid of ..read more »

71% from 19,221 members

Airplane - Blu-ray (1980)
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it, AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot (who has a drinking problem and is afraid of ..read more »

82% from 190 members

Mafia! - 3.0 stars
First Do No Harm - 3.5 stars
Hot Shots Part Deux - 3.5 stars
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael - 3.0 stars
Hot Shots - 3.5 stars

Airplane - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Airplane! - 3.5 stars
Hot Shots - 3.5 stars
Ruthless People - 3.5 stars
Hot Shots Part Deux - 3.5 stars

Mafia! - 3.0 stars
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael - 3.0 stars
Top Secret - 3.0 stars
First Do No Harm - 3.5 stars
Big Business - 3.5 stars

Lloyd Bridges - 5 times - show films
Christopher Villiers - 2 times - show films
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 2 times - show films
Robert Stack - 2 times - show films
Charlie Sheen - 2 times - show films

David Zucker - 5 times - show films
Jerry Zucker - 5 times - show films
Jim Abrahams - 1 times - show films