21 Jump Street is a 2012 American action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, and scripted by Michael Bacall from a story by him and Hill.
In 2005, bookish student Morton Schmidt Jonah Hill and popular underachieving jock Greg Jenko Channing Tatum miss their school prom. Seven years later, the two meet again at the Police Academy and become firm friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo DeRay Davis, the leader of a onepercenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they failed to read him his Miranda rights.The two are reassigned to a revived scheme from the 1980s a reference to the television series which specializes in infiltrating high schools. Captain Dickson Ice Cube gives them new identities and sends them to a high school to contain the spread of a synthetic drug called H.F.S. Holy Fucking Shit. After mixing up their identities, Schmidt and Jenko are enrolled in classes illfitting to their personalities. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly Brie Larson and he and Jenko meet the schools main dealer, popular student Eric Dave Franco. The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover. After experiencing the drugs effects, the duo discover how much school has changed since they left Schmidts intelligence makes him popular while Jenkos lax attitude is frowned upon. ........
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