Not screened for critics, dumped on the market shortly before the rash of Christmas films, and pulled from theaters one week later, FEDS was one of 1988's phantom releases. The script by coproducer Len Blum and first-time director Dan Goldberg (both part of the team that wrote MEATBALLS
and STRIPES) combines the POLICE ACADEMY formula with the standard buddy movie format, then does a gender switch, making the green recruits females. De Mornay, a dim-but-athletic ex-Marine, and Gross, a meek, bookish type, are roommates at the FBI Academy, where they are subjected to the taunts of
the sexist male recruits. Since both are on the verge of flunking out--De Mornay becau...
Released:
1988
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
83 mins