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21 Jump Street (2012)

21 Jump Street poster
Directed by
Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Genre
comedy film, action film, buddy film, crime film, teen film, buddy cop film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 11,105 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two underachieving police officers go undercover as high school students to stop a new drug. They have to deal with the social pressures of school while keeping their true identities secret.

funfast-pacedcomedicaction-packedlightheartedcheekyenergeticsilly

What happens

21 Jump Street is a 2012 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in their live-action directorial debuts and written by Michael Bacall, based on a story by Bacall and Jonah Hill. The film stars Hill and Channing Tatum in the lead roles, alongside Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, and Ice Cube. It is an adaptation of the 1987–1991 television series of the same name by Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh. In the film, police officers Schmidt and Jenko are forced to relive high school when they are assigned to prevent the outbreak of a new synthetic drug and arrest the supplier. 21 Jump Street was produced by Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Relativity Media, Original Film, and SJC Studios. It premiered in SXSW festival on March 12, 2012, and was theatrically released in the United States four days later on March 16 by Sony Pictures Releasing where the film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its humor and the chemistry between Hill and Tatum, and then grossing $201 million worldwide. A sequel, 22 Jump Street, was released on June 13, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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