Super Troopers


Super Troopers is a 2001 crimecomedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by and starring the Broken Lizard comedy group Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske. Marisa Coughlan, Daniel von Bargen and Brian Cox costar while Lynda Carter has a cameo appearance. In total, Fox Searchlight paid 3.25 million for distribution rights of the film and grossed 23.1 million at the box office.

The film takes place in the fictional town of Spurbury, Vermont, near the Canadian border. The plot centers on five Vermont state troopers who seem to have more of a knack for pranks than actual police work. Most of their time is spent devising new ways of messing with the heads of the people they pull over and hazing Rabbit, a new recruit. They also find time to torment their easily infuriated radio dispatcher, Rodney Farva, who has been exiled from patrol work because he was involved in a fight with several students during a questionable traffic stop of a school bus, which is later revealed during the credits. Their days of pranking and slacking off are cut short when the troopers suddenly find themselves attempting to solve a murder, bust a drugsmuggling ring, and avoid having their post eliminated by the states impending budget cut resulting in their transfer, or quitting and opening up a roller disco.The troopers have an ongoing rivalry with the Spurbury Police Department, Spurburys local police. They repeatedly enter conflicts with them highway cops versus the local cops one such dispute breaks out into an allout fistfight, further increasing the stations chances of being shut down. The rivalry eventually results in the governors Lynda Carter praise for the efforts of the Spurbury PD, who had managed to keep one step ahead of the state police by making their department appear responsible for the confiscation of the smuggled drugs. Defeated, the defrocked troopers unexpectedly stumble upon the scheme in which the local police are running protection for the aforementioned drug smugglers. The films epilogue finds the highway post still eliminated due to the budget cuts however, the troopers become the new officers of the Spurbury PD replacing their incarcerated corrupt predecessors and thus free to continue their shenanigans in and around their jurisdiction. ........

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