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Feds (1988)
Director: Dan Goldberg
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Two young women try to make the grade at the FBI Training Academy. They're given a predictably hard time by their male colleagues, a leering, chauvinist bunch of halfwits and bullies who seem to have strayed out of a National Lampoon movie, but the feisty lasses prove their mettle by the final reel. Director Goldberg seems uncertain whether he should be aiming for slapstick or an earnest docu-drama about sexism in the FBI. Despite an engaging Goldie Hawn-style performance from De Mornay, the end result is bland, toothless satire with neither the gusto of Police Academy, nor the charm of Private Benjamin.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Dan Goldberg
Producer: Ilona Herzberg, Len Blum
Cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Mary Gross, Fred Dalton Thompson, Ken Marshall, Larry Cedar, Raymond Singer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 91 mins
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