Taglines: They thought the streets were mean. Then they went back to high school.
In 2005, Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko were polar opposites in high school. Schmidt did well in school, but his geekish personality made it hard to him to gain acceptance among his peers. Jenko was a jock with plenty of friends but had poor grades.
Seven years later, the duo join the police force and they become friends. The duo finally catch a break when they are assigned to go undercover as high school students and halt the spread of a synthetic drug that many students are getting their hands on and catch the supplier.
After their identities are inadvertently mixed up, Schmidt finds himself among the popular kids, including the school’s main drug dealer, while Jenko finds himself ostracized and frowned upon by most of the students. Schmidt’s attempts to make something of himself leads to a rift with Jenko and threatens to derail the entire operation. Can they get their act together before the synthetic drug spirals out of control?
21 Jump Street is a 2012 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, written by Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall, and starring Hill and Channing Tatum. An adaptation of the 1987–91 television series of the same name by Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh, the film follows two police officers who are forced to relive high school when they are assigned to go undercover as high school students to prevent the outbreak of a new synthetic drug and arrest its supplier.
The film was released theatrically on March 16, 2012 by Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and grossed $201 million against a budget of $54.7 million. A sequel, titled 22 Jump Street, was released on June 13, 2014. A female-led spin-off is currently in development.
21 Jump Street (2012)
Directed by: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, DeRay Davis, Ellie Kemper, Holly Robinson Peete, Nick Offerman, Stanley Wong, Johnny Pemberton
Screenplay by: Michael Bacall
Production Design by: Peter Wenham
Cinematography by: Barry Peterson
Film Editing by: Joel Negron
Costume Design by: Leah Katznelson
Set Decoration by: Bob Kensinger
Art Direction by: Scott Plauche, Thomas Valentine
Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh
MPAA Rating: R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media
Release Date: March 16, 2012
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