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The Specials

They're not incredible, they're just special.
Sep 22, 2000 · 1h 22m
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America'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.

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CAST

Rob Lowe
The Weevil
Jamie Kennedy
Amok
Thomas Haden Church
The Strobe
Jordan Ladd
Nightbird
Mike Schwartz
U.S Bill
Paget Brewster
Ms. Indestructible
Kelly Coffield Park
Power Chick
Sean Gunn
Alien Orphan
Directed by Craig Mazin

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$1,000,000
Revenue
$13,276
Production
Mindfire Entertainment, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
Country
US

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