Jim Abrahams

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

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino

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 went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino

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

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Tobolowsky

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

After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two sons: either level-headed veteran Anthony or vituperative loose cannon Joey.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate

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