![]() Penelope Ann Miller as Joyce Palmieri / Rachel Myatt Crisp, a teacher whom Kimble falls for Crisp's ex-wife.Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble, a tough street cop who's forced to take an undercover assignment as a Kindergarten teacher.The kids are very happy to see him, and Joyce comes into the classroom and kisses him in front of all the kids. After Kimble recovers, he quits the police force and returns to teaching at the school. During Kimble's recovery, O'Hara and her chef boyfriend announce their engagement, inviting him to the wedding. Before she can shoot Kimble again and kill him, O'Hara arrives and knocks her unconscious with a baseball bat.Ĭrisp's mother is arrested, while the unconscious Kimble (much to the sadness of the children) is hospitalized. She ventures into the school and shoots Kimble in the shoulder, but then discovers her dead son. Noticing that O'Hara is trying to help Kimble in the apprehension of her son, Eleanor runs over O'Hara with her rental car. Crisp shoots Kimble in the knee and Kimble kills Crisp before he can hurt Dominic. Crisp takes his own son hostage, but Crisp is bitten by the ferret (who Dominic had rescued at the sound of the fire alarm) and Dominic wriggles free. They identify Chrisp's ex-wife and Crisp starts a fire in the school in order to grab his son in the chaos, but he is seen. Crisp is freed from prison and immediately heads to Astoria, where he and his mother immediately begin looking for the child on the information from the informant. The case is dismissed because the prosecution has no other evidence. Meanwhile, back in California, Cindy dies after using spiked cocaine provided by Crisp's mother, Eleanor Crisp ( Carroll Baker). Joyce reveals that she never stole any of Crisp's money: it was a lie he told to incite the underworld to find her for him. O'Hara has been posing as Kimble's sister and agrees with his deductions. In a series of conversations with the gradually more trusting Joyce, Kimble slowly deduces that she has to be Rachel Crisp and that Dominic is Crisp's son. Joyce, like many other of the students' mothers, is estranged from her husband, so that she will not speak of him. Kimble becomes fond of Dominic's mother, Joyce Palmieri ( Penelope Ann Miller), who also works at the school. One of Kimble's students is a boy named Dominic. In turn, Kimble begins to love his cover job and his young charges, to the point where he severely deals with a case of child abuse by assaulting the abusive father, finally winning Miss Schlowski's favor. Using his pet ferret as a class mascot, his police training as a model for structure of the classes, and positive reinforcement, he becomes a much-admired and cherished figure to the children. The school principal, Miss Schlowski ( Linda Hunt), is suspicious, but Kimble adapts progressively to his new status even though he has no formal teaching experience. Unfortunately, O'Hara, who is hypoglycemic, falls ill with a terrible case of stomach flu at the last moment, so Kimble takes the teacher's job. O'Hara is to act as the substitute teacher in the son's kindergarten class at Astoria Elementary School, while Kimble is to discover the identity of the mother. The detectives plan to offer her a deal to testify against Cullen in exchange for immunity. ![]() ![]() It is believed that Rachel stole millions of dollars from Crisp before fleeing. Kimble, accompanied by Detective Phoebe O'Hara ( Pamela Reed), a former teacher, go undercover in Astoria, Oregon, to find Crisp's ex-wife Rachel. However, the only witness, a drug-addicted girl named Cindy, the informant's girlfriend who was hidden at the time of the murder, is deemed too unreliable to put Crisp up for a permanent prison charge as she changes her mind about testifying, so Rachel Myatt has to be found and persuaded to testify. ĭetective John Kimble and O'Hara in the classroom (after she has recovered)Īfter years of pursuing drug dealer Cullen Crisp ( Richard Tyson), Los Angeles Police Detective John Kimble ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) has him on a murder charge after Crisp shot and killed an informant who had given him information regarding the whereabouts of his ex-wife, Rachel Myatt Crisp, and his son Cullen Jr. Schwarzenegger received a salary of $12 million for the film. The original music score was composed by Randy Edelman. Pamela Reed plays his partner Phoebe O'Hara, and Penelope Ann Miller plays Joyce, the teacher who becomes Kimble's love interest. Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough police detective, who must go undercover as a kindergarten teacher to catch drug dealer Cullen Crisp ( Richard Tyson), before Crisp can get to his ex-wife and son, while along the way he discovers his passion for teaching. Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American comedy thriller film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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