George Kuffs, 21, leaves a pregnant girlfriend. He visits his brother Brad to bum money off him. Brad's shot and George IDs the killer at SFPD but to no avail. He inherits Brad's patrol dist... Read allGeorge Kuffs, 21, leaves a pregnant girlfriend. He visits his brother Brad to bum money off him. Brad's shot and George IDs the killer at SFPD but to no avail. He inherits Brad's patrol district. He keeps it to get the killer.George Kuffs, 21, leaves a pregnant girlfriend. He visits his brother Brad to bum money off him. Brad's shot and George IDs the killer at SFPD but to no avail. He inherits Brad's patrol district. He keeps it to get the killer.
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Nonetheless, Slater is charming and it is a fun watch.
Just don't take it too seriously.
Boxleitner is a patrol specialist, an institution dating from the days of the Forty Niners and unique unto San Francisco. There were not enough police to enforce any semblance of law and order in a town that just mushroomed over night. The city fathers assigned specific areas to people to enforce law and order and Boxleitner has one of those districts.
But in his area, the merchants are being harassed and extorted and he's being offered a huge bribe to sell his district to some really nasty people. When he doesn't Boxleitner is killed and Christian Slater inherits his job.
Despite some really gaping holes in the plot, the film is really carried along quite nicely by Christian Slater. Others in the cast of note are Milla Jovavich as his pregnant girlfriend, Leon Rippy as the hood who murdered Boxleitner and Tony Goldwyn as the SFPD officer assigned to Slater to keep him from getting killed.
Still Kuffs is strictly a Christian Slater show and his fans will absolutely love it.
hip title character in this decent action comedy. George Kuffs
is a high school drop out who decides to take over his dead
brother's police patrol and to avenge his death. Kuffs stumbles
his way to find to his brother's killers and manages to make a
real image of himself. Slater is fine as Kuffs, whose constant
joking around might have irritated the folks around him, but his
humor really paid off, in this comedy flick that might remind a
few Slater fans of his other avenger movie, "Gleaming the Cube,"
except "Kuffs" is way funnier and more good
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- TriviaThe script was written specifically for Christian Slater in mind for the title role.
- GoofsAfter getting shot and showing the audience the bandage, the wound and stating that there was an exit wound, Kuff is soon dancing around his late brother's apartment with his shirt off and no wound.
- Quotes
[Kuffs and Bukovsky, armed with pump shotguns, are facing about a dozen hoods in the film's climactic confrontation]
Unidentified Hood: It's a twelve-gauge pump, boys. He's only got three shots. They can't get us all!
[He reaches for his gun, Ted blows him away]
George Kuffs: [gestures to dead hood] Well, now we know he can add...
[gestures to Ted]
George Kuffs: And he can subtract. So who wants to be next here?
- Alternate versionsThe German video version was cut for violence (ca. 4 minutes) to secure a 'Not under 12' rating. It remained cut for nearly 30 years until the censors decide to pass the film uncut at 'Not under 12'.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 1992 MTV Movie Awards (1992)
- SoundtracksThe Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
Written by Pat MacDonald (as Pat McDonald)
Performed by Timbuk 3
Courtesy of I.R.S. RECORDS
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,142,815
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,651,055
- Jan 12, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $21,142,815