620 - Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Ivan Reitman, the master of the 1980s family-friendly action comedy, steps boldly into the 90s with a playful reinvention of one of the most singular R-rated action movie marquee names of the 20th-century: Arnold Schwarzenegger.  He plays detective John Kimble, an intimidating and violent cop who must transition to the gentler persona and methods of a small-town kindergarten teacher in order to uncover the identities of a mother (Penelope Ann Miller) and child (Christian and Joseph Cousins) hiding from the real target: the sinister criminal Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson).   

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Casavettes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976).