'Slush soup' was a note I made while watching it. Set brain power to zero. We are amazingly eclectic - that we can go from The Hustler to Slaughterhouse Five to Inspector Morse to this.. which is.. What? A thriller with cute kids? It's not a kids' film, exactly. Q thinks though it's a family film. Whatever it is, it doesn't make much sense, despite being re-written.
Jason Reitman is in it, as 'kissing teenager'. And I noticed a credit for Les Kovacs, as Chief Lighting Technician, but he's nothing to do with Laszlo.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed (fellow cop), Linda Hunt (principal), Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker (Baby Doll, Giant), Cathy Moriarty.
Where the mobster's mother runs over the cop is entertainingly badly staged. And I loved the bit where all the kids are pointing up the stairs and Arnie says "Which way did he go?"
Handsomely photographed by Michael Chapman.
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