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David Zucker has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Airplane!.
Airplane!
1980 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Paramount+ · Included
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Paramount+ · Included
Top Secret!
1984 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 24%Paramount+ · Included
Ruthless People
1986 · Movie · Director
Top 39%Prime Video · Included
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Movie · Writer
Top 42%Paramount+ · Included
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker · With Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Dir. David Zucker · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Dir. Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker · With Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing
In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations.
Dir. Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams · With Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Ed Williams
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Dir. David Zucker · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy
Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker · With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy
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.
Dir. John Landis · With Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Agneta Eckemyr
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.
Dir. David Zucker · With Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar
News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
Dir. David Zucker · With Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Simon Rex
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
Dir. Hart Bochner · With Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
Dir. David Zucker · With Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter's older brother, who's on the run from local drug dealers.
Dir. David Zucker · With Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Terence Stamp
A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
Dir. David Zucker · With Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen
Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Ashley French, Simon Rex, Gracie Whitton
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