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Police Academy
1984
· Movie
· 97 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3186
- IMDb #2839
- Google retired #953
- Rotten Tomatoes #3029
- Metacritic #3551
- Letterboxd #3196
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3436
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3048
- Metacritic Audience #1970
- Criticker #2767
- Douban #864
- Kinopoisk #496
- AlloCiné #3559
- Trakt #2059
Every rating
37–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 50, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a bid to diversify the police force, a city announces it is opening its academy to all recruits, removing all standards. This policy allows a motley crew of misfits, eccentrics, and troublemakers to enroll. Their chaotic presence turns the academy upside down as they clash with the hard-nosed commandant and his staff, who are determined to see them all fail.
Details
- Director
- Hugh Wilson
- Writers
- Hugh Wilson, Neal Israel, Pat Proft
- Studio
- The Ladd Company
- Released
- 22 March 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.5M
- Box office
- $81.2M
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