Tag: Jim Abrahams

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Script

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Year:1988
Director:David Zucker
Written by:Jerry Zucker (Writer), Jim Abrahams (Writer), David Zucker (Writer), Pat Proft (Writer)

Script Synopsis:When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Script Resources:

  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Script PDF at Script Slug
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Script PDF - REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT. 2/11/1988. at Script City ($)
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ( tt0095705 ) at IMDb
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ( 37136 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Hot Shots! Part Deux Script

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Year:1993
Director:Jim Abrahams
Written by:Pat Proft (Screenplay), Jim Abrahams (Screenplay), Jim Abrahams (Characters), Pat Proft (Characters)

Script Synopsis: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.
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Ruthless People Script

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Year:1986
Director:Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Written by:Dale Launer (Screenplay), O. Henry (Story)

Script Synopsis:A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Big Business Script

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Year:1988
Director:Jim Abrahams
Written by:Dori Pierson (Screenplay), Marc Reid Rubel (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
Big Business Script Resources:

  • Big Business Script PDF - [Uncredited][Nov 25, 1986] at Script Fly ($)
  • Big Business Script PDF - 11/25/1986 at Script City ($)
  • Big Business Transcript at scripts.com

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Hot Shots! Script

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Year:1991
Director:Jim Abrahams
Written by:Jim Abrahams (Author), Pat Proft (Author)

Script Synopsis:Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
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Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael Script

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Year:1990
Director:Jim Abrahams
Written by:Karen Leigh Hopkins (Writer)

Script Synopsis: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.
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  • Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael ( tt0100911 ) at IMDb
  • Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael ( 31923 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Airplane!

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Year:1980
Director:Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Written by:Jim Abrahams (Author), David Zucker (Author), Jerry Zucker (Author), Arthur Hailey (Teleplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
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