Kuffs
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The theatrical release poster for Kuffs
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| Directed by | Bruce A. Evans |
| Produced by | Raynold Gideon |
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| Music by | Harold Faltermeyer |
| Cinematography | Thomas Del Ruth |
| Edited by | Stephen Semel |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $21.1 million |
Kuffs is a 1992 American action comedy film directed by Bruce A. Evans and produced by Raynold Gideon. It stars Christian Slater and Tony Goldwyn. The film includes Milla Jovovich in her third feature film and Ashley Judd in her film debut. The film was written directly for the screen by Evans and Gideon, both of whom had Slater in mind for the title role. The original music score is by Harold Faltermeyer. The film is set in, and was filmed around, San Francisco, California, in 1991. It involves a type of law enforcement unique to San Francisco: the Patrol Special police franchises.
George Kuffs (Slater) is an irresponsible 21-year-old high school dropout from San Francisco who walks out on his pregnant girlfriend Maya Carlton (Jovovich). Having lost his last job and with no prospects he visits his brother Brad (Bruce Boxleitner), who serves as an officer in the San Francisco Patrol Special Police, a civilian auxiliary police unit that sees potential officers assign themselves specific areas and work on a for-hire basis. Brad is not willing to loan George any money, though, and suggests George join him as a Patrol Special and work under him. Before George can decide whether to accept the offer, a man named Kane (Leon Rippy) shoots Brad in a church. George runs into the church to try to help Brad as Kane nonchalantly walks away from the scene, and Brad is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.
George is brought in for a lineup where he identifies Kane as the shooter, but things quickly go from bad to worse as the police are forced to release Kane because George did not actually see him fire the gun. Shortly after this, George is told by Captain Morino (Troy Evans), a friend of his brother's, that Brad has died from his injuries. Morino also tells George that he has been bequeathed the district Brad patrolled. Shortly after a local businessman named Sam Jones (George de la Pena) decides to try and purchase the district so he can control it, but George decides to keep it and train to be a police officer. Predictably, things do not go smoothly as George draws the mocking of his fellow Patrol Specials and the ire of Officer Ted Bukowsky (Tony Goldwyn), a police liaison who has been assigned to work with the Patrol Specials as punishment for having an affair with the police chief's wife (Alexandra Paul).
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