The 34 year-old world of Kindergarten Cop never existed, of course, but it half-existed in the minds of the makers (director Ivan Reitman, screenwriters Murray Salem, Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris) and many in the mass audience. Arnold Schwarzenegger was 42 or 43 during filming, but looked younger. Who didn’t?

The world of 1990 and especially its values are totally gone, and will never again return.

And the movies that defined that year….Goodfellas, Internal Affairs, Miami Blues, The Hunt for Red October, Longtime Companion, Dick Tracy, Metropolitan, Postcards From Ther Edge, Avalon, Reversal of Fortune, Misery, The Sheltering Sky, The Grifters, Edward Scissorhands, etc. Plus everyone looked and felt so much younger. Plus there were no grown-up Millennials or Zoomers to muck things up, and no political terror! And Politically Incorrect wouldn’t debut until 7.25.93.

I was writing for Entertainment Weekly and Empire (I think), and my very first trip to the Cannes Film Festival wouldn’t happen for another two years.