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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
· Movie
· 85 min
B
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #829
- IMDb #846
- Google retired #545
- Rotten Tomatoes #976
- Metacritic #575
- Letterboxd #1321
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1235
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1205
- Metacritic Critics #984
- Metacritic Audience #251
- Douban #744
- Kinopoisk #1489
- AlloCiné #3370
- Trakt #989
Every rating
60–94
out of 100
The most incompetent police detective in Los Angeles is assigned to protect a visiting dignitary who has been targeted for assassination. Despite causing chaos wherever he goes, he bumbles his way through the investigation, somehow getting closer to uncovering the sinister plot.
Details
- Director
- David Zucker
- Writers
- David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
- Based on
- Police Squad!
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 2 December 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $152.4M
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Awards
2 nominations total
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"Mayor, will there be any additional security officers added to the police force during the Queen's visit?"
