The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
K-9 has generally received mixed reviews.
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K-9 was released in 1989 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving K-9 (1989) an average rating of 56%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 55% and users giving an average score of 55%.
With a score of 56%, K-9 is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
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