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Release Date:
21 December 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
An undercover cop in a class by himself. more
Plot:
A tough cop is given his most difficult assignment: masquerade as a a kindergarten teacher in order to find a drug dealer. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Kindergarten
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Undercover
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Oregon
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Drug Dealer
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Principal
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Awards:
4 wins
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1 nomination
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This movie should be so bad, and yet...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... | Detective John Kimble |
 | Penelope Ann Miller | ... | Joyce Palmieri / Rachel Crisp |
 | Pamela Reed | ... | Detective Phoebe O'Hara |
 | Linda Hunt | ... | Miss Schlowski |
 | Richard Tyson | ... | Cullen Crisp, Sr. |
 | Carroll Baker | ... | Eleanor Crisp |
| Cathy Moriarty | ... | Sylvester's Mother |
| Joseph Cousins | ... | Dominic Palmieri / Cullen Crisp, Jr. |
| Christian Cousins | ... | Dominic Palmieri / Cullen Crisp, Jr. |
| Park Overall | ... | Samantha's Mother |
 | Jayne Brook | ... | Zach's Mother |
 | Richard Portnow | ... | Captain Salazar |
| Tom Kurlander | ... | Danny |
| Alix Koromzay | ... | Cindy |
| Betty Lou Henson | ... | Keisha's Mother |
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111 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Iceland:L (cut) |
Spain:T |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:12 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:15 |
UK:12 (theatrical release) (cut) |
UK:15 (video rating) |
USA:PG-13 (Certificate #30860) |
Brazil:Livre
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The poem that Kimble reads to the children before naptime is "Spring Morning" from A.A. Milne's book "When We Were Very Young", with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Dominic is climbing the tower to place his lasers he is facing the tower. When the bird startles him he is still facing the tower. However, when he begins to fall he is facing out.
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Quotes:
[to some kids who keep bumping his airplane seat]
Detective John Kimble: Hey, come here.
[he beckons a kid with one finger, while holding a pencil in the other]
Detective John Kimble: If you don't stop screwing around back there, this is what I'm gonna do with you.
[he snaps the pencil in two with his thumb. The kid sits back, wide-eyed]
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Detective John Kimble: Hey, come here.
[he beckons a kid with one finger, while holding a pencil in the other]
Detective John Kimble: If you don't stop screwing around back there, this is what I'm gonna do with you.
[he snaps the pencil in two with his thumb. The kid sits back, wide-eyed]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show (1991) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
The Party Starts Now!
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So I'm watching KINDERGARTEN COP in a bit of a stupor because the remote control is too far for me to reach when I suddenly realize something amazing: This movie is fantastic. In the calculus of Hollywood dreck, KINDERGARTEN COP doesn't add up. Take 1 muscle-bound action hero, a dozen too-cute kids and a plot so contrived it makes an episode of any television sit-com look downright plausible and you should have a mess fit only for release straight to video in Third World nations--do not pass "Go" (or your local metroplex) or collect $200. In fact, I would love to meet both the person who pitched this idea and the studio head who gave it the green light:
Pitchman: "Imagine MARY POPPINS without the namby-pamby animation and music and twice the butt-kicking! Oh, and instead of Dick Van Dyke faking a British accent we'll have Arnold Schwarzenegger faking intelligible dialog!" Studio Exec: "I love it! Here's umpteen million dollars to get it made!"
And the freakin' movie works! It really does. The script is filled with some great lines (My favorite, of course: "It's not a tumor!"), sweet characters and some low-key acting from the principles that keeps the story from becoming maudlin. This is one of maybe three movies I can think of that I would be comfortable watching with my parents, minor relatives or beer-drinking buddies. (Coincidentally, another one of the three is GHOSTBUSTERS, also an Ivan Reitman flick.) It has bloodless action, quotable lines and an ending that is satisfying. It just shouldn't exist. Maybe the fact that it does exist proves the William Goldman line about Hollywood: "Nobody knows nothing."
Take some advice from your Uncle Guy: If you're stuck with the kids or a date you don't know and you need to sit at home and watch a movie, put in KINDERGARTEN COP. You won't be disappointed, and you just might like it. And this advice comes from a big curmudgeon.