Jack From:Robin Williams , Diane Lane , Brian Kerwin , Jennifer Lopez , Bill Cosby , WILLIAMS,ROBIN , Francis Ford Coppola , Walt Disney Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WILLIAMS,ROBIN
EAN: 0786936209730
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-08-03
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-08-09
Product Description:
A ten-year-old has a unique condition: his body ages four times as fast as normal, but still he experiences all of the ups and downs of a fifth-grader's life.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews:
6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Diane Lane & Jennifer Lopez can only do so much, 2008-09-22
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.
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