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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
MEANRANK
44/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5641
- IMDb #5601
- Rotten Tomatoes #5061
- Metacritic #4807
- Letterboxd #5049
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5571
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4661
- Metacritic Audience #4118
- Kinopoisk #3351
- AlloCiné #4933
- Trakt #4694
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 0, highest is Kinopoisk on 67. Critics average 13, everyone else 53.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Details
- Director
- Jim Drake
- Writer
- Gene Quintano
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 2 April 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Box office
- $76.8M
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Cast
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