Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker
Writer(s):   Hall Bartlett John C. Champion Arthur Hailey Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker
Studio:  Paramount Pictures
Year Released:  1980        Running Time:  88 min
Genre:  Comedy
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Parody, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  78/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  97%
Plot Snapshot:  A pilot with PTSD is forced to take over when the captain and passengers get food poisoning. And don't call me Shirley.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Iconic landmark destroyed
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Big Bus, The (1976)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   James Frawley
Writer(s):   Fred Freeman Lawrence J. Cohen
Studio:  Paramount Pictures
Year Released:  1976        Running Time:  88 min
Genre:  Action and Comedy
Category of Disaster:  Earthquake, Hurricane, Parody, Planetary, and Storm
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  78%
Plot Snapshot:  The oil lobby wants to put out of business a nuclear-powered bus that goes nonstop from New York to Denver, in this spoof of every disaster movie you ever saw
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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