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 enlarge | Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Bill Cosby
Category: DVD
Buy New: $24.54
Avg. Customer Rating:  (45 reviews)
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Croatian (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
EAN: 7321922345233
ASIN: B00004RYGV
Theatrical Release Date: August 9, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Jack is Francis Coppola at his most pointless noodling, looking for the film he wants to make instead of just making it. Robin Williams stars as 10-year-old Jack, a boy with an inexplicable disease that ages him at four times the normal human rate. Kept at home like a contemporary Boo Radley, Jack becomes a neighborhood legend until his parents relent and send him to school. In time, the other kids befriend him and stay loyal as his hyperdevelopment puts a strain on his body and emotions. The idea is sound, but the execution is a bore. The best the script and Coppola can come up with are painfully long scenes in which Williams's character proves himself on the playground and in gross-out contests in a tree house. Coppola fishes around for signs of life and spontaneity in these scenes, but the film is actually best when Jack has to cope with certain feelings in his mature body (such as his attraction to a character played by Fran Drescher) that he isn't prepared for emotionally. Jack would have been a lot better if Coppola had embraced a plan from beginning to end and stuck to it. --Tom Keogh
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 Excellent family movie December 28, 2008
This is such a sweet and touching movie. Robin Williams is a great actor and he played the part of Jack so well. I enjoyed watching this movie with my family.
sad December 16, 2008
this is a very sad movie
i could never imagin how tis family comes to terms with having a son that looks older then he is.
i dont think anyone can understand how they will feel unles put under that situation
Jack December 12, 2008
I absolutely love this movie. It's great for the family, has some comedy and is also a tear jerker. Great cast too, Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez and Fran Drescher, to name a few.
 Diane Lane & Jennifer Lopez can only do so much September 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One gloomy night in August, Brain Powell and Karen Powell (Brain Kerwin and Diane Lane) decided they would like to be parents. Two months later at a Halloween party Karen realized that the baby was ready to get out after only two months. Had the baby ripped out Aliens-style, this movie would have no doubt been better; however, it wasn't meant to be. Nonetheless, the Halloween-spawn came forth as Karen delivered what essentially turned out to be the Wolfman.
It turns out that Karen delivered her baby, Jack (Robin Williams), seven months early because he's aging at four-times the rate of a normal human. What was left out of the explanation, however, was that along with the quadrupled growth rate, Jack had hair growth at roughly 25 times the normal rate. That's the only explanation for Jack ending up looking like a 40 year old wearing a fur coat or an extra for Planet of the Apes. Given Williams' resemblance to the guy one step from the right on the evolutionary chart, I suppose the premise is not all that unbelievable. Williams playing an innocent, character who diddles and fidgets like a child, on the other hand, is just awkward.
Anyway, by the time Jack is ready for school he looks like a middle-aged adult. He eventually ends up going to public school where he's horribly out of place, and it's much worse than you would expect for a movie in which Robin Williams plays a grade-schooler. In all the appropriate places, where a child interacts with parents, a heartwarming pause is felt by all. Except anyone with a pulse. Essentially he's the proverbial turd in a punchbowl. It's just Robin Williams hamming it up for the camera for 2 hours, basically the same thing he did in the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" video - a grown man willing to flush his dignity down the toilet in order to do ridiculous things that only he finds amusing.
Thank goodness for the combined efforts of the talented and gorgeous Diane Lane, and the sexy, nubile school teacher played by Jennifer Lopez. If not for those two, this atrocity of a movie may have caused riots. I only recommend this movie for severely deranged masochists.
Heart Warming family movie August 15, 2008
Great DVD. Amazon delivered this dvd on time (Before the expected date), in great condition and kept me posted from the time it left them, to the time it was put into my Mailbox. Highly recomend, and definatly will be shopping with Amazon agan.
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