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    River Oaks Theatre Weekend Midnight Movies: Airplane!

    Presented by Landmark Theatres at River Oaks Theatre

    September 2-September 3, 2011

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    River Oaks Theatre Weekend Midnight Movies:  Airplane!

    Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:55pm, it's another Midnight Movie Classic at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre.

    Friday-Saturday,  September 2-3:   Airplane!

    Synopsis: A pilot afraid to fly follows his stewardess ex-girlfriend and must take over for the poisoned crew.

    This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags,...

    Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:55pm, it's another Midnight Movie Classic at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre.

    Friday-Saturday,  September 2-3:   Airplane!

    Synopsis: A pilot afraid to fly follows his stewardess ex-girlfriend and must take over for the poisoned crew.

    This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the cliches as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty). Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to Striker to land the plane, with the help of a glue-sniffing air traffic controller (Lloyd Bridges) and Striker's vengeful former captain (Robert Stack), who must both talk him down.

    Along the way, we meet a clutch of stock disaster movie passengers like the guitar-strumming nun, a sick little girl, a frightened old lady, and two African-American travelers whose "jive" has to be subtitled. Leslie Nielsen portrays the plane's doctor, launching a new phase of the actor's career that carried him through the next two decades in several similarly comedic roles.

    The trio of directors Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker responsible for the film would eventually go on to solo careers, but not before making Top Secret! and Ruthless People. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

    Director: Jim Abrahams,David Zucker,Jerry Zucker
    Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker
    MPAA Rating: PG
    Run Time: 1hr 28mins
    Release Year: 1980
    Country Of Origin: United States


    River Oaks Theatre

    2009 West Gray
    Houston, TX 77019

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    Tickets:

    General Admission $9.75
    Children/Seniors $7.00

     


    Times:

    11:55pm


    Phone: (713) 866-8881

    Parking: Surface parking available.

    Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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