Kindergarten Cop

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Kindergarten Cop

1990 · Movie · 107 min

Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer54%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic61/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Murray Salem, Herschel Weingrod, and Timothy Harris. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Kimble, a tough Los Angeles police detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in a small Oregon town to locate the ex-wife and son of a dangerous drug dealer.

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Genres
Action / Comedy
Original language
English

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