She assures him that even though she does not agree with his methods, she can see that he is a good teacher. At one point, he deals with a case of child abuse by assaulting, threatening and pressing charges against the father of an abused student, winning Miss Schlowski's favor since she long suspected this was going on. Kimble begins to enjoy his undercover role. With the use of his pet ferret as a class mascot, positive reinforcement, his police training as a model for structure in class, and his experience as a father, he becomes a much admired and cherished figure to the students. Though initially overwhelmed, he adapts to his new status quickly, despite not having any formal teaching experience. The suspicious school principal, Miss Schlowski, is convinced Kimble will not last long before quitting.
However, she is incapacitated by a severe stomach flu, so Kimble takes her place. O'Hara is tasked with finding Rachel through her son by acting as a substitute teacher in a kindergarten class at Astoria Elementary School. Partnered with former teacher-turned-detective Phoebe O'Hara, Kimble goes undercover in Astoria, Oregon, to find Rachel and offer her immunity in exchange for testifying against Crisp in court. Critical reception was mixed, though Schwarzenegger earned high marks for expanding into comedy films after his early work in action-adventure productions.Īfter years of pursuing Cullen Crisp, an infamous drug dealer, LAPD detective John Kimble arrests him for murder when a girl named Cindy witnessed Crisp murder an informant after getting information regarding the whereabouts of his former wife, Rachel, who he claims stole millions of dollars from him before fleeing with his son, Cullen, Jr. The film was released in the United States on December 21, 1990, and grossed $202 million worldwide. A direct-to-video sequel, Kindergarten Cop 2, was released in 2016. The original music score was composed by Randy Edelman. Pamela Reed, Penelope Ann Miller and Linda Hunt co-star. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough police detective working undercover as a kindergarten teacher to locate the wife and child of drug dealer Cullen Crisp ( Richard Tyson), who are living under assumed identities.
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In the film as released, Schwarzenegger survives but retires from the police force to become a kindergarten teacher full time.Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Universal Pictures. The first time it happened to him, he was so disgusted, he just dropped me.” Adam Wylie (who played Larry) also talked about the movie’s alternate ending, which would have gone down a dark road by having Schwarzenegger’s character die after being shot by the movie’s drug dealer bad guy.
“ The script was written so that Arnold would set me down. And this is exactly what happened.”Įlsewhere in the video, Brian Wagner (who played William) talks about the scene where he had to spit up on Schwarzenegger, and reveals that the moment caused the action star to go off script. Ivan told me, ‘If the kids are laughing at the way you sound, then I think the audience will laugh, too. So I would just be screaming, ‘It’s not a tumor, it’s not a tumor at all!’ and the kids would be laughing instead of being scared. “There were certain lines that, because of my accent, the kids were laughing. As it turns out, director Ivan Reitman was the one who first recognized that the line would pass into Schwarzenegger lore forever, as the actor shared: Among the stories shared in the above video by Schwarzenegger and his delighted former castmates is an anecdote about how the famous “It’s not a tumor” line came about.
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