Kindergarten Cop

Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy movie directed by Ivan Reitman. It is about two undercover cops from Los Angeles pretending to be teachers at an elementary school in Astoria, Oregon to find the ex-wife of a drug dealer, who wants to kidnap their son. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker, Linda Hunt and Matthew Lillard are in the cast. The movie was released in December 1990. It received mixed reviews by critics.[5] However, the movie earned over $200 million at the box office, making the movie very successful.[4]

Kindergarten Cop
Directed byIvan Reitman
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story byMurray Salem
Starring
Music byRandy Edelman
CinematographyMichael Chapman
Edited by
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • December 21, 1990 (1990-12-21)
Running time
111 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$26 million[2]
Box office$202 million[3][4]

Release dates

Country Premiere
  Romania 1990
  United States 21 December 1990
  Peru 1991
  Argentina 3 January 1991
  Australia 3 January 1991
  Brazil 25 January 1991
  United Kingdom 1 February 1991
  Ireland 1 February 1991
  Sweden 1 February 1991
  Germany 7 February 1991
  Denmark 8 February 1991
  Finland 8 February 1991
  Netherlands 8 February 1991
  Portugal 8 February 1991
  France 13 February 1991
  South Korea 14 February 1991
  Italy 8 March 1991
  Hungary 15 March 1991
  Spain 22 March 1991
  Turkey 12 April 1991
  23 May 1991
  Japan 8 June 1991
  Poland 9 June 1991
  Czechoslovakia 24 January 1992

References

  1. "Kindergarten Cop (12)". British Board of Film Classification. 25 January 1991. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  2. "Kindergarten Cop (1990)". The Numbers. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. Broeske, Pat H. (January 8, 1991). "WEEKEND BOX OFFICE : Moviegoers Go for the Laughs". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-08/entertainment/ca-7898_1_weekend-box-office. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Kindergarten Cop (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  5. "Kindergarten Cop". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 March 2013.