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Jack is a 1996 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film stars Robin Williams , Diane Lane , Jennifer Lopez , Brian Kerwin , Fran Drescher , and Bill Cosby .
Jack: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez. Because of an unusual disorder that has aged him four times faster than a typical human being, a boy looks like a 40-year-old man as he starts fifth grade at public school after being homeschooled.
After an unusually short pregnancy, Karen Powell (Diane Lane) gives birth to a baby boy whose body ages much faster than the normal rate. With her husband, Brian (Brian Kerwin), Karen raises their...
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Aug 9, 1996 · Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school.
Comedy favorite Robin Williams stars as a mischievous 10-year-old who acts like any other boy his age, except he's in a grown-up's body. It's nonstop laughs as Jack embarks on the greatest adventure of his young life...the fifth grade.
Jack (Robin Williams) is next seen ten years later as a ten-year-old boy in the body of a forty-year-old man. Four boys lurk outside his house, swapping rumors of a "monstrosity" of a boy their age who can't go to school.
Aug 9, 1996 · Jack. Comedy. 117 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1996. Roger Ebert. August 9, 1996. 4 min read. In his choice of characters, Robin Williams seems more comfortable playing soloists–people set apart by special skills or problems. Remember him in “ Jumanji,” trapped in time. Or in “ Popeye,” where “I yam what yam.”
