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While Ellie is strong, streetwise, practical, social but scholarly weak, Janis is the opposite and thus make ideal room and team mates at a tough 16 week FBI training course.While Ellie is strong, streetwise, practical, social but scholarly weak, Janis is the opposite and thus make ideal room and team mates at a tough 16 week FBI training course.While Ellie is strong, streetwise, practical, social but scholarly weak, Janis is the opposite and thus make ideal room and team mates at a tough 16 week FBI training course.
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Feds is great! So much humour and wit mixed with butt-kicking.
The movie really is empowering for any woman who works in a male-dominated field. They really do show many of the guys how to do the job right.
There is also a great showing of support for each other that really helps make the difference.
I wish they would release it to DVD. VHS is really a sad medium for film now. I want to add Feds to my DVD collection.
If you haven't seen Feds, do yourself a favour and rent it if you still own a VCR.
The movie really is empowering for any woman who works in a male-dominated field. They really do show many of the guys how to do the job right.
There is also a great showing of support for each other that really helps make the difference.
I wish they would release it to DVD. VHS is really a sad medium for film now. I want to add Feds to my DVD collection.
If you haven't seen Feds, do yourself a favour and rent it if you still own a VCR.
This is one of my five favorite comedy movies.
Mary Gross gives an inspired and hilarious performance as the nerdy, neophyte, near-Fed.
Rebecca De Mornay is perfect as the straight foil for Mary, and Fred Thompson did a much better job of impersonating an FBI instructor than he ever did at impersonating a Senator.
Tony Longo as the sailor in the bar was also outstanding.
It also had a great beat, and was easy to dance to. I give it an 80, Dick.
Mary Gross gives an inspired and hilarious performance as the nerdy, neophyte, near-Fed.
Rebecca De Mornay is perfect as the straight foil for Mary, and Fred Thompson did a much better job of impersonating an FBI instructor than he ever did at impersonating a Senator.
Tony Longo as the sailor in the bar was also outstanding.
It also had a great beat, and was easy to dance to. I give it an 80, Dick.
It may not win any awards as one of the all time greats. However it is a fun movie to watch. Sometimes you don't want a movie that you have to think about. Like I said it makes me laugh!
In a way Feds is something of a historic film. Because back in the day there ain't
no way J. Edgar Hoover would have allowed his men to have been satirized. They
had been used as villains before now someone is poking fun.
Rebecca DeMornay and Mary Gross are a pair of female applicants and they're told up front they are a pair of affirmative action specials. No one expects them to last 16 weeks.
Both women complement each other. Gross is an academic wizard who is a klutz with the physical stuff. DeMornay is a Navy WAVE who is a match for her male counterparts but lacks the education. They are always looking to impress the brass.
The film is compared to police academy movies, but it is hardly as outrageous as that series. No outlandish or colorful characters are spawned from this movie as in Police Academy.
Still though it has lots of laughs and good entertainment value.
Rebecca DeMornay and Mary Gross are a pair of female applicants and they're told up front they are a pair of affirmative action specials. No one expects them to last 16 weeks.
Both women complement each other. Gross is an academic wizard who is a klutz with the physical stuff. DeMornay is a Navy WAVE who is a match for her male counterparts but lacks the education. They are always looking to impress the brass.
The film is compared to police academy movies, but it is hardly as outrageous as that series. No outlandish or colorful characters are spawned from this movie as in Police Academy.
Still though it has lots of laughs and good entertainment value.
A great action film, but not as clever as the first film and not as tightly put together as the second. It lost its way a couple of times and I was left feeling that of the first three films, strangely this was seemed the most outdated. Still a good yarn and never boring. "Feds" was refreshing in the sense that it's a "female buddy" cop movie that didn't have to depend on vulgarity or sexuality to be entertaining unlike its modern counterpart "The Heat". Yes, both women have a crush on their respective male equivalents, but the movie didn't dwell on it so it didn't resort to being a rom-com either, which typically happens these days. Overall they just help each other become more competitive against their fellow classmates, there's no trickery involved, no toilet humor, no crudeness, and really no male-bashing either - the brainy Janis helps Marine Ellie become a better test taker and Ellie gives tips to Janis on how to pass the physical requirements. Good clean fun. I would've been satisfied if the jerks failed but oh well, good ending nonetheless.
Overall rating: 7 out of 10.
Overall rating: 7 out of 10.
Did you know
- TriviaPart of a cycle of American cop comedies that got made after the box-office success of Police Academy (1984). The films include that movie's numerous sequels, Deux filles au FBI (1988), Recruits (1986), Le flic était presque parfait (1986), Patrouille de nuit (1984), Les Zéros de conduite (1985) and Hollywood Vice Squad (1986).
- GoofsWhen Zuckerman is kneeling on the floor, packing to leave the FBI, the tapes a box that only has three of the for flaps closed. But when she walks to the hallway, the box has all four flaps closed.
- Quotes
Janis Zuckerman: Have you ever made love to a woman until she lost consciousness?
Sailor: Twice. No, four... four times.
- Crazy creditsDuring the credits, Ellie and Janis receive their assignments as they talk with Howard about his assignment to Duluth, MN. Both get L.A.
- ConnectionsReferenced in There's Nothing Out There (1991)
- SoundtracksAll Lips n' Hips
Performed by Electric Boys
Composed by Conny Bloom (as Conny Blomqvist)
Courtesy of PolyGram Records (Sweden)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,838,793
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,388,317
- Oct 30, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $3,838,793
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