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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

★ 6.8 · 2,738 ratings on TMDB

If you see only one movie this year... you ought to get out more often.

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear poster★ 6.8

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

DirectorDavid Zucker
CastAnthony James, George Kennedy, Jacqueline Brookes, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bochner, O. J. Simpson
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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