10 Best Filmmaking Siblings

6. The Zucker Brothers

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It should be noted that The Zucker Brothers are actually two members of the three-person team ZAZ (Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker), a trio of comedy writers and directors who made some of the seminal comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.

Though parody films did exist, the Zucker Brothers were largely responsible for popularizing them with their films The Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane!

They became known for their collaborations with deadpan comic genius Leslie Nielsen, who appeared in Airplane! and then popped up in their TV series Police Squad (which was later brought to the big screen as The Naked Gun movies).

For those looking for an underseen entry in their body of work, the Val Kilmer-starring Top Secret! is a brilliant hybrid satire of European spy films and Elvis musicals.

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