Kindergarten Cop

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Kindergarten Cop
Directed byIvan Reitman
Screenplay by
Story byMurray Salem
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Chapman
Edited by
Music byRandy Edelman
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]

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]

Release dates[change | change source]

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
 Hong Kong 23 May 1991
 Japan 8 June 1991
 Poland 9 June 1991
 Czechoslovakia 24 January 1992

References[change | change source]

  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. 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.