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Underclassman (2005)

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Movie Info


Genre

Action, Comedy, Thriller

Release Date

September 02, 2005

MPAA Rating

PG-13

Duration

95 min.

Studio

Miramax Films

Official Site

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Critics Reviews :  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Reader's Reviews :  Be the 1st!

Cast and Crew


Director

Marcos Siega

Producer

Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy, Andrew Panay

Screenwriter

David T. Wagner, Brent Goldberg

Starring

  • Shawn Ashmore
  • Hugh Bonneville
  • Nick Cannon as Tracy Stokes
  • Kaylee DeFer
  • Nicole Garza
  • Kelly Hu as Lisa Brooks
  • Cheech Marin
  • Ian Gomez

Movie Story


Nick Cannon plays Tracy "Tre" Stokes, a streetwise LA cop in "Underclassman," which combines frenetic action with sharp-eared comedy. When a student at an elite private school gets murdered, the rough-edged rookie Stokes gets assigned as the undercover detective to track down the killer. The resulting culture shock is only one of his difficulties. The ever-resourceful Stokes resorts to using his unique blend of sharkish good cheer and rakish charm to woo his beautiful teacher Karen Lopez (Sanchez) to help him pass Spanish and his arrogant athletic prowess to make the school streetball team. Once Stokes gets "in" with the edgy team captain and lead suspect Rob Donovan (Ashmore), he discovers that Donovan is being coerced into participating in a student car theft operation. Using his talent for hunches, Stokes wastes no time employing unorthodox methods of investigation. Although disapproving of Stokes behavior,

Captain Victor Delgado (Marin) is worried for his safety and assigns two of his detectives as back up - Detective Lisa Brooks (Hu) and Richard Gallecki (Gomez) to keep an eye on him.

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MOVIE REVIEWS BY CRITICS

“..transmogrifies into an unsatisfying main course of greasy diner food...”
by Christian Ghigliotty [The Cinema Source]
“..is too slow and predictable to work as a cop thriller and not funny or outrageous enough to work as a spoof..”
by Harper Barnes [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
“..a frantic, aimless goose chase of comedy/action..”
by Nicholas White [Hollywood]