• Friday, December 21, 1990

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  111 min

1990

Goofs

• Continuity: During the trip to Astoria, John and Phoebe pulled off to the side of the road when Phoebe is feeling sick. She ran to the bushes to get sick then returns to the car and trips over a log that was not there before.
• Continuity: Phoebe's position after being hit by the car after the fire at the school.
• Continuity: Crisp's mother's hair during the shootout in the bathroom.
• Factual errors: John and Phoebe travel on an MD-80 aircraft. There are five seats per row in these planes, but the set was constructed with six.
• Continuity: On Kimble's second day of teaching, he is wearing a red shirt. When he picks up the little boy who is eating the lunches, he is wearing the outfit that he wore on the first day. After that, he is wearing the red shirt again.
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, Kimble tenderly walks with a cane into the classroom. When Rachael comes in, the cane disappears and he whisks her up and spins her around as if he has no injury.
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Mrs. Sullivan's car door.
• Continuity: When Kimble is grilling Crisp after Crisp's arrest, Kimble pushes him onto a table and a paper cup gets knocked over. When we see Crisp from the front, the coffee cup is upright.
• Factual errors: During evacuations and evacuation drills, teachers take their gradebooks/class lists so attendance can be taken. This is standard procedure, but the teachers in the movie were coming out empty-handed.
• Continuity: When the firemen start escorting the students across the road after the fire, the fire chief's Caprice has its trunk open. In the next shot, when Phoebe runs to the entrance, the trunk is closed.

Taglines

• An undercover cop in a class by himself.
• Go ahead, you tell him you didn't do your homework.
• He's the toughest undercover cop in LA. If you're bad he'll know it. If you're hiding something he'll find out. If you cheat he can tell. Now...
• It's a jungle gym out there.

Trivias

• Kimble swears in German as he carries his colleague into the house. ("Das macht mich stinksauer! Jetzt bin ich sauer!", which means "That makes me pissed as hell! Now I am pissed!").
• The section where Phoebe pretends to be German by sprouting random German phrases was unchanged when dubbed into German. This caused confusion in Germany.
• Dominic has "Ghostbusters" sheets. Ghost Busters (1984) was also directed by Ivan Reitman.
• The poem that Kimble reads to the children before naptime is "Spring Morning" from A.A. Milne's book "When We Were Very Young", with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
• Miko Hughes' character name, Joseph Cousins, is the real name of one of the boys who plays young Dominic (he was played by twins Joseph Cousins and Christian Cousins).
• Bill Murray was originally offered the role of John Kimble.
• Danny DeVito was also considered for the role of John Kimble, but was not given the part due to his height.
• The character of Emma (Sarah Rose Karr) is named after director Ivan Reitman's own daughter, Emma.

Awards

1. Young Artist Award
   Event: Young Artist Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Most Entertaining Family Youth Motion Picture - Comedy/Action
   Recipient(s):
2. Young Artist Award
   Event: Young Artist Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
   Recipient(s): Joseph Cousins, Christian Cousins, Justin Page, Peter Rakow, Sarah Rose Karr, Miko Hughes, Marissa Rosen Ben Diskin, Tameka Runnels, Emily Ann Lloyd, Tina Hart (and class)
3. Young Artist Award
   Event: Young Artist Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Young Actor Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
   Recipient(s): Joseph Cousins, Christian Cousins
4. BMI Film Music Award
   Event: BMI Film & TV Awards
   Result: Won
   Category:
   Recipient(s): Randy Edelman