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5.3America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.
Released: 2000-09-2282 minDir: Craig MazinComedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, ActionBudget: $1.0MBox office: $13,276
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Cast
- Rob Lowe as The Weevil
- Jamie Kennedy as Amok
- Thomas Haden Church as The Strobe
- Jordan Ladd as Nightbird
- Mike Schwartz as U.S Bill
- Paget Brewster as Ms. Indestructible
Themes
- superhero
- superhero team
- independent film
- dysfunctional friends
- superhero parody
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Ratings
IMDb
5.7/10
2,599 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
47%
Metacritic
38/100
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Fantasy
- Rated
- R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- parody film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Craig Mazin
- Screenwriter
- James Gunn
- Cast member
- Ellie Cornell
- Duration
- 79
- FilmAffinity ID
- 652990
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2000-01-01
- title
- The Specials
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 47%
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