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.
Writing
Mazin's razor-sharp dialogue before Hangover fame
Acting
Church and Brewster's bitter ex-couple chemistry
Production
Zero budget, maximum commitment to the bit
Director
Craig Mazin
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
Judy Greer
Deadly Girl
James Gunn
Minute Man
Jim Zulevic
Mr. Smart
Lauren Cohn
Eight
Jenna Fischer
College Girl
Lee Kirk
Reporter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 18 days for under $1 million. The 'action' budget was literally zero—every fight happens off-screen.
Predated The Incredibles by four years with its 'superhero midlife crisis' premise, but tanked so hard it became a VHS rental store legend.
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