Role: Maya Carlton
Genre: Action , Crime , Comedy
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Written by: Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon
Running time: 102 min
Release Date: January 10, 1992
Additional Cast: Christian Slater, Ric Roman Waugh

Synopsis

George Kuffs (Christian Slater) loses his job and skips town when he finds out that his girlfriend Maya (Milla) is pregnant. He tries to get a loan from his older brother Brad but Brad is promptly murdered and George is suddenly the owner of Brad’s security agency business.

Filming

The film is set in, and was filmed around, San Francisco, California, and deals with a type of law enforcement unique to San Francisco: the Patrol Special police franchises.

Release

Kuffs was released in the United States on January 10, 1992. It opened in fifth place and grossed $5.7 million in its opening weekend. The final US gross was $21.1 million. Kuffs continued an 18-month dry spell for Universal Pictures in which they did not score a hit. The film’s theatrical poster, which depicts Slater smiling and holding a pistol, was compared to that of Juice’s poster, which Paramount Pictures airbrushed to remove a pistol. Further comparisons between the films led Richard Harrington of The Washington Post to question whether racism led the Motion Picture Association of America to rate Kuffs PG-13 and Juice R. Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, denied racism had anything to do with it and said it was based solely on parental concerns. In Dallas, Texas, the regional ratings board overrode the MPAA rating with an R rating for violent content.

Kuffs was released on home video in the U.S. in June 1992.