Movies directed by Jim Abrahams

Airplane! (1980)

88 mins     Comedy      

Spoof movies are not new but in the last decade there seems to be a new one cropping up every other year. There was the "Scary Movie" spoofs and then the likes of "Date Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie" to name just a coupl...

Ruthless People (1986)

93 mins     Comedy, Crime      

Whilst "Ruthless People" stars Danny DeVito and Bette Midler the trio of directors behind the camera will give you a better idea of what sort of movie it is because those men are Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker wh...

Big Business (1988)

97 mins     Comedy      

Released back in 1988 "Big Business" is a comedy of confusion, a series of gags surrounding mistaken identity as two sets of twins mixed up at birth miraculously find themselves in the same hotel at the same time blissfully u...

Hot Shots! (1991)

84 mins     Comedy      

Spoof movies must be some of the easiest movies to make, going by the number which gets made and they must turn an easy profit as well. But whilst they may be easy to make, making them good seems to be another matter especial...

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

86 mins     Comedy      

There is an unwritten rule that most sequels to spoof movies suck, they suck because the best jokes are used in the first movie and the second movie is usually just a case of recycling the humour from the first with just a sm...

...First Do No Harm (1997)

90 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - ...First Do No Harm (1997) Meryl Streep stars as Lori Reimuller, a mother who takes on the medical establishment when her son is diagnosed epilepsy and they refuse to consider that a ketogenic diet might help h...