FBI Academy (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | FBI Academy |
| Original title | Feds |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Goldberg |
| script | Len Blum Daniel Goldberg |
| production |
Len Blum Ilona Herzberg |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Donn Cambern |
| occupation | |
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FBI Academy (Original title: Feds ) is an American comedy film from 1988 by Len Blum and Daniel Goldberg .
action
After Elizabeth De Witt, known as Ellie, leaves the United States Marine Corps , all she wants is to join the FBI . And despite all concerns that a woman might pass the training, she is accepted at the FBI Academy and assigned to the young geek Janis Zuckerman as a roommate. Both share the fate that almost all men make fun of them and everyone says that they would never make the education. It also looks like it, because Ellie is good at all practical things, but particularly bad at all theoretical things, while Janis fails in all practical tests and exercises.
Since both share the same fate, Ellie and Janis become friends very quickly. So it happens that, after Ellie Janis bought her first handgun, they both watch a bank robbery and after a wild chase with gunfire they overpower and arrest the robbers. However, since both only have the status of recruits, the FBI does not like this at all, which is why they are threatened to be fired in the next similar incident. But that could happen sooner, because the performances of the two are both miserable. Janis therefore wants to give up beforehand because she doesn't want to feel like a quota woman . But Ellie persuades them to stick together, pool their own strengths and help each other. Ellie Janis trains in all practical exercises, while Janis helps Ellie with all theoretical tests.
Ellie is secretly in love with Brent and overjoyed when he invites her on a date. But during the date she is horrified to see how Brent speaks out against equality and denies any woman the ability to work for the FBI at all. After he insults her friend Janis, Ellie breaks off the dinner together, horrified and angry. In the subsequent joint study group, in which all remaining recruits go through old cases, Brent is once again less than enthusiastic about Jani's abilities, which is why he rudely ignores them. But Ellie stands by her friend, which is why she believes her idea, rolls up an old case with her and solves it together, whereby both of them are the only ones to receive the top grade.
Shortly before the final test, there are only a few recruits left. Because Janis and Ellie have come so far, they use an extensive bar visit to celebrate. But shortly after they come back to their room, they are rang awake, because the last test, a fake kidnapping, is to take place at night. Again Brent plays as the leader who wants to lead the entire group, except for the two women. And while he then wandered through the forest, swamp and steppe area, the two women have left the group and are the only ones to solve this test with flying colors, so that they ultimately receive their degree from the FBI Academy as the best recruits with distinction.
criticism
“ FBI Academy is an unreal mix of Reaganism , vengeance nerds, and penis envy (disguised as feminism in this male-written comedy). [...] Neither DeMornay nor Gross play amusing and believable criminal hunters. Because on the one hand they play badly written, strangely reactionary parts and on the other hand they take out their gun again like Dirty Harry . "
"The film itself is friendly and harmless, no more or less exciting than an average training manual."
“The film is exhausted, awkward, predictable and pitifully received and framed. [...] FBI Academy doesn't even have the wild, sloppy clumsiness one might expect and there is almost no life and no spontaneity in the film. "
"A swinging mix of" Police Academy "and" Buddy "films."
production
- Goldberg and Lem began writing the script as early as 1982, which originally had the title G-Men and in which the protagonists were men and not women. There were a total of five different versions of the script, with the fourth version ultimately being used as the basis for the film adaptation.
publication
After the film opened in theaters on October 28, 1988, it was only able to bring in only 3.8 million US dollars on a production budget of about 6 million US dollars. In Germany, the film was released directly on VHS on November 10, 1989 .
Web links
- FBI Academy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- FBI Academy in the German dubbing file
- FBI Academy in the online movie database
- FBI Academy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rita Kempley : 'Feds' on washingtonpost.com of October 29, 1988 (English), accessed December 20, 2011
- ↑ Janet Maslin : Feds (1988) on nytimes.com of October 29, 1988 (English), accessed December 20, 2011
- ↑ Michael Wilmington: Movie Reviews: Awkward 'Feds' Fails but Not De Mornay and Gross on latimes.com, October 31, 1988 (English), accessed December 3, 2011
- ↑ FBI Adademy in the lexicon of international film
- ↑ a b Len Blum (PDF; 161 kB) on data2.archives.ca , accessed on December 20, 2011
- ↑ Leonard Blum ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at mediacommons.library.utoronto.ca , accessed December 20, 2011
- ↑ Barbara Isenberg: The G-Man as the Fall Guy on latimes.com from August 27, 1988 (English), accessed December 20, 2011
- ↑ Feds on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed December 20, 2011
