Film

Kindergarten Cop 1990

Directed by Ivan Reitman

  • Comedy
  • 111 min
  • PG-13

Go ahead, YOU tell him you didn't do your homework.

Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.

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