45th anniversary screening + live comedy!
Airplane! + Mr Benelux comedy intro
Unabashedly juvenile and silly, this uproarious spoof is full of quotable lines and slapstick laughs that endure to this day. Comedian Mr Benelux will share a few gags before the film!
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Cast includes: Leslie Nielsen, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Lloyd Bridges
Hosted by Hastings comedian, Mr Benelux
88 min / 1980 / USA
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Unabashedly juvenile and silly, Airplane! is an uproarious spoof comedy full of quotable lines and slapstick gags that endure to this day.
Introduced by local comedian, Mr Benelux, with a few gags before the film!
About your host, Mr Benelux
It's a big bad world out there but forget that for 87 minutes of one of the greatest and silliest comedies ever made. Local comedian, Hastings Benelux will be your host, doing a little bit of talking before the film and then leading a philosophical and erudite discussion of the many, many existential and metaphysical questions posed by the film, after the showing.
Hastings Benelux is a much-loved, inconsistent and directionless comedian who you definitely haven't seen on Have I Got News For You or 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
"Mr Benelux we salute you. Whoever you are. The Hastings comedy conspiracy is very much alive and chuckling and growing"- Hastings Independent Press
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