It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $201 million worldwide. The film was released theatrically on Maby Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the film, Schmidt and Jenko are police officers who are forced to relive high school when they are assigned on an undercover mission to pose as high school students in order to prevent the outbreak of a new synthetic drug and arrest its supplier. An adaptation of the 1987–1991 television series of the same name by Stephen J. The film stars Hill and Channing Tatum in the lead roles. 21 Jump Street is a 2012 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in their live action directional debuts and written by Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall.