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Jim Abrahams

05/10/1944 (79 years old) | Shorewood, USA | Director | Male

?From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944) is an American movie director and writer. Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family, and attended Shorewood High School.1 He is known for the spoof movies that he co-wrote and produced with brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, such as Airplane! (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) and The Naked Gun series. The team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (also referred to as ZAZ) really began when the three men grew up together in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Abrahams later produced movies on his own such as Big Business, and further honed his skills in parody with Hot Shots! and its 1993 sequel Hot Shots! Part Deux. He now lives in Eagle River, Wisconsin.Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Abrahams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Jim Abrahams Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

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1.	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	1,636
2.	Airplane!	520
3.	The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult	18
4.	Hot Shots!	18
5.	Top Secret!	2
6.	Cry-Baby	0
7.	Hot Shots! Part Deux	0

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Movie | United States | 12/02/1988 | Comedy | Parody

When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

7.6/10

86%

2,350

Airplane!

Movie | United States | 07/02/1980 | Comedy | Parody

Alcoholic pilot, Ted Striker has developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, but nevertheless boards a passenger jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend. 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 and Striker's vengeful former Air Force captain, who must both talk him down.

7.7/10

97%

683

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Movie | United States | 03/18/1994 | Comedy | Parody

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's problems. A host of celebrities at the Academy awards ceremony are humiliated by Frank as he blunders his way trying to foil Rocco.

6.5/10

56%

198

Hot Shots!

Movie | United States | 07/31/1991 | Comedy | Parody

Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino and Jon Cryer co-star in director Jim Abrahams' (Airplane, Naked Gun) truly hilarious spoof of Top Gun. Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot (Sheen) finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral (Bridges) and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.

6.7/10

81%

104

Top Secret!

Movie | United Kingdom | 06/08/1984 | Comedy | Parody

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.

7.2/10

76%

Cry-Baby

Movie | United States | 04/05/1990 | Comedy | Music

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

6.5/10

72%

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Movie | United States | 05/21/1993 | Comedy | Parody

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.

6.6/10

58%

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