Kindergarten Cop

Director: Ivan Reitman Ivan Reitman

Overview

Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his scabrous mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). John learns Cullen is searching for his ex-wife and his little boy, and Kimble plans to nail them when they find the former wife, who is believed to have $3 million of Cullen's drug profits. John and Phoebe follow the trail to Astoria, Oregon, where they believe Cullen's son is attending kindergarten. Although the child and his mother have changed names, John hopes they can pick up some clues. By coincidence, Phoebe used to be a schoolteacher and the school board permits her teach the kindergarten class, but Phoebe gets food poisoning and John is forced to teach the six-year-old whippersnappers himself. Along with lighthearted gags with the kids and the pursuit of the drug dealers, John has time for a little romance when he falls in love with one of the teachers (Penelope Ann Miller), who ends up surprising him with more than love.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/20/1998
UPC:	0025192014529
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00
Sales rank:	4,241

Special Features

Closed captions; Cast and crew biography; Movie trailer; Production notes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Arnold Schwarzenegger	Detective John Kimble
Penelope Ann Miller	Joyce Palmieri
Pamela Reed	Detective Phoebe O'Hara
Linda Hunt	Miss Schlowski
Richard Tyson	Cullen Crisp, Sr.
Carroll Baker	Eleanor Crisp
Cathy Moriarty	Actor
Park Overall	Actor
Jayne Brook	Actor
Joseph Cousins	Actor,Actor
Richard Portnow	Actor
Tom Kurlander	Actor
Alix Koromzay	Actor
Betty Lou Henson	Actor
Heidi Swedberg	Actor
Justin Page	Actor
Peter Rakow	Actor
Sarah Rose Karr	Actor
Marissa Rosen	Actor
Ben McCreary	Actor
Miko Hughes	Actor
Robert Cave	Actor
Ben Diskin	Actor
Tameka Runnels	Actor
Medha Garg	Actor
Brian Wagner	Actor
John Christian Graas	Actor
Jim Jim Jackson	Actor
Ian Baumer	Actor
Amy Wald	Actor
Tiffany Materas	Actor,Actor
James Chance	Actor
Adam Wylie	Actor
Nicole Nagorsky	Actor
Ross Malinger	Actor
Amber Reaves	Actor,Kissing Girl
Odette Yustman	Actor
Tina Hart	Actor
Emily Ann Lloyd	Actor
Haley Urman	Actor
Bethany Jaye Allyn	Actor
Zachary March	Actor
Anthony Wong	Actor
Peter Vásquez	Street Tough
Remone Bradley	Actor
Leo Lee	Street Tough
Gary Hollis	Superintendent Rice
Rick Jones	Samantha's Father
Stephen Root	Sheriff
Bob Nelson	Henry
Molly Cleator	Schlowski's Assistant
Gene Elman	Judge
Susan Burns	Waitress
Tom Dugan	Crisp's Lawyer
Roma	Manicurist
Jason Stuart	Male Hairstylist
Kim Delgado	Security Guard
Ray Glanzmann	Security Guard
Ed Crick	Security Guard
Angela Bassett	Stewardess
Chi Lo	Dope Dealer
John Hammil	Zach's Father
Stephen Park	Asst. to Salazar
Galen Yuen	Low Life
Terry Golden	Low Life #3
Lee Dupree	Low Life #4
Michael Chapman	Firefighter
Randy Edelman	Composer
Catherine Reitman	3rd Grade Student,Jason
Anne Merrem	Nurse
Tiffany Mataras	Tina,Rina
Frankie Avina	Low Life #2

Technical Credits

Murray Salem

Herschel Weingrod

Timothy Harris

Ivan Reitman	Director,Producer
Murray Salem	Screenwriter
Herschel Weingrod	Screenwriter
Timothy Harris	Screenwriter
Brian Grazer	Producer
Michael C. Gross	Executive Producer,Producer
Joel Kramer	Stunts
Joe Medjuck	Executive Producer,Producer
William Aldridge	Special Effects
David Balcort	Stunts
Anna Behlmer	Sound Effects
Steve Borne	Sound Effects
Gary C. Bourgeois	Sound Effects
Gene S. Cantamessa	Sound Effects,Sound Effects
Richard Lund	Special Effects
Gordon Webb	Producer
Mario Roberts	Stunts
Sheldon Kahn	Producer
Alan Berger	Casting

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Editorial Reviews

Comic director Ivan Reitman has a field day with this infectious comedy that only goes awry in an alarmingly violent finale that nearly derails all of the fun that's preceded it. Although he has frequently attempted comic roles with limited success, star Arnold Schwarzenegger is a hit here, perhaps because he's lampooning rather than playing against his own muscle-bound, tough guy persona. He's the straight man, allowing the toddlers to take center stage, a generous and unusual creative decision that is mined repeatedly for big laughs. Easily the best scenes in the film feature the star attempting to remain patient with a classroom full of school children, an irresistible idea and the high-concept engine driving the film, which Reitman wisely never forgets. It's only in a climax featuring gunplay and five-year-olds in serious jeopardy that the film strays badly off key, momentarily wrecking the fragile suspension of disbelief that has allowed the Terminator to be seen teaching kids their ABC's. For the majority of its running time, however, Kindergarten Cop (1990) is hilarious and good-natured, an enjoyable frolic that casts an action star with limited artistic range in a creatively different light.

All Movie Guide - Karl Williams