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  • 1999
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary A big screen version of the trend-setting 1960's television series, updating the premise for the '90s. A trio of juvenile delinquents becomes undercover cops to infiltrate a drug ring in the ultra-hip L.A. club scene. (MGM)

Directed By: Scott Silver

Written By: Buddy Ruskin, Stephen Kay, Kate Lanier, Scott Silver

  • 1999
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 32 m

The Mod Squad

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 21 Critic Reviews
16
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 74 User Ratings
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Summary A big screen version of the trend-setting 1960's television series, updating the premise for the '90s. A trio of juvenile delinquents becomes undercover cops to infiltrate a drug ring in the ultra-hip L.A. club scene. (MGM)

Directed By: Scott Silver

Written By: Buddy Ruskin, Stephen Kay, Kate Lanier, Scott Silver

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 21 Critic Reviews
16
5% Positive
1 Review
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
71% Negative
15 Reviews

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 21 Critic Reviews
16
5% Positive
1 Review
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
71% Negative
15 Reviews

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80
A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
Curiously enough plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad.
By Bob Graham FULL REVIEW
30
An exercise in robotic filmmaking.
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25
You watch the movie in a dumbfounded stupor. Why on earth was it made? [26 March 1999, Friday, p.A]
By Mark Caro FULL REVIEW
20
Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood.
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10
Torturously boring.
By Lawrence Van Gelder FULL REVIEW
0
Bound to wind up as one of 1999's worst films.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 74 User Ratings
8.0
78% Positive
58 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
19% Negative
14 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 74 User Ratings
8.0
78% Positive
58 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
19% Negative
14 Ratings

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Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date Mar 26, 1999
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline They did the crime, They paid the time, Now they're...undercover?
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 4 Nominations
Csapnivalo Awards
• 2 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination

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