Title: Jack
Starring: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin; Bill Cosby; Fran Drescher; Jennifer Lopez
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Released: 9 August 1996
Jack is the story of a boy named, you guessed it, Jack. Jack has a unique disease. Instead of growing up like a normal kid, Jack grows 4X faster than anyone else. Thus, when he's ten (which his is in the movie), he looks like he is 40. The rest of the movie is pretty basic -- how is Jack going to fit in with kids his age when he looks so much older than he really is.
Okay. This movie is kind of a blast from my past. I love it; I always have. It's one of my favorite movies of all time (if you can believe it). I'm not quite sure what it is about this movie, but it's just . . . I don't know how to explain it. I love it. End of story.
I think it has to do with Robin Williams. He's fantastic.
This movie and Jumanji made me love him and his comedy.
Of course there are other films of his that I enjoy immensely (Mrs. Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society), but these two are the ones sticking out in my mind at the moment.
Acting like a child comes far too naturally to him, but that's what I love about it. He really is a"big" kid filled with wonder and whimsy (in most movies).
I love the random song thing they have playing while they play basketball with Jack for the first time. It makes me laugh.
For the record, this is definitely a boys movie. I mean, has anyone else seen the fart-in-the-can and eating nasty-food initiation scene? Girls would never do that . . . at least, not any girls I know . . .
Just saying . . .
More than anything, I can't get over all the preachy, motivational, you can be anything you want to be, cheesy monologs. They're lame, but I really did enjoy two of them.
1. To be fair, this isn't really a monolog. It's a single line -- when I grow up I want to be alive. It's kind of showing these kids that there are more important things than jobs; it's all about your life and living it to the fullest.
Overhanded, definitely.
I love it all the same. What can I say? I suffer from depression and the message radiates with me.
2.
Woodruff: You were a shooting star amongst ordinary stars. . . . It's wonderful. It passes quickly, but while it's here it just lights up the whole sky -- it's the most beautiful thing you'd ever want to see. So beautiful that the other stars stop and watch. . . . Because they're very rare. Quite rare. But I saw one. I did.
Jack: I just . . . want to be a regular star.
Woodruff: Jack, you'll never be regular. You're spectacular.
3. "I don't have much time these days so I'll make it quick. Like my life. You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our lives, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry, thinking, "What am I going to do? Where am I gonna be in ten years?" But I say to you, "Hey, look at me!" Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you've ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety sky. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day . . . make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did. I made it, Mom. I'm a grown up." - Jack
4. "I want to be just like my best friend when I grow up. He's only ten, but he looks much older. He's like the perfect grown up because on the inside, he's still just a kid -- he's not afraid to learn things or try things, or to meet new people the way most grown ups are. It's like he's looking at everything for the first time -- because he is. And most grown ups aren't like that." - Louis
I know -- cheesy to the max, but I love it all the same so get over it.
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