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 neighbourhood 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, Amazon.com [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Ten year-old Jack just wants to have fun, go to school, and play with kids of his own age. Unfortunately, Jack has a medical condition which ages him at four times the normal rate... making him a child in a man's body... Age Rating PG
Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who ages at four times the rate of a normal child. Aged 10, he has the body of a 40-year-old man, and when sent to school is shunned by his class-mates as a freak. They gradually come to realise the advantages of having a friend who looks like a grown-up, however, and Jack soon finds himself winning basketball matches and posing as the Principal to fool one of his friends' mother.
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