Jim Abrahams — Director (7)
Top Secret! (1984) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Top Secret!
7.2 (6 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams / Jerry Zucker actor: Val Kilmer / Lucy Gutteridge
other title: Ultra Secreto / Top Secret !
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.
Hot Shots! (1991) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban
Hot Shots!
6.5 (8 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Cary Elwes
other title: Ases Pelos Ares / Hot Shots! - Die Mutter aller Filme
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.
Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Jane Austen's Mafia!
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Jay Mohr / Billy Burke
other title: Mafia! / Máfia!
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.
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Hot Shots! Part Deux
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Lloyd Bridges
other title: Hot Shots! 2 / Ases Pelos Ares 2
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.
Police Squad! (1982) [TV] TMDB
Police Squad!
director: Jerry Zucker / Jim Abrahams actor: Leslie Nielsen / Alan North
other title: Quelli della pallottola spuntata / Die nackte Pistole
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.
Big Business (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Business
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin
other title: Affari d'oro / Alle disse kvinder
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.