lisafordeay Jack is like Brad Pitt's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,as it tells the story about a 10 year old boy who looks like a 40 year old due to some genetic condition he has ever since he was born. He goes to school like normal kids and one of his teachers is Jennifer Lopez. The film revolves from Jack as a kid looking like a 40 year old to him being 18 when he looks about 90 years old. If you are a big kid at heart than check it out. I haven't seen this film since 11 or 12 years ago so I have most parts of it forgotten. Diane Lane co stars as Robin Williams mother who is trying to let her son fit in school even though he is sorta having a bad time. 5/10RIP Robin Williams

moonspinner55 A curiosity coming from Francis Ford Coppola (who also co-produced for Zoetrope) has pregnant Diane Lane going into labor after only two months, delivering a healthy-seeming baby boy (when she pleads to her husband in the delivery room, "It's too soon!", it's rather an understatement). Doctors have never seen another child like this, yet quickly determine the boy has an internal clock which is ahead of itself by four times the average rate, meaning that when Jack is ten-years old he'll look like a man of forty. This peculiar movie gimmick aside, what we really have here is Robin Williams back in grade school. Although this may sound perfectly inexcusable, not to mention somewhat derivative, it isn't a silly movie (at least, not at its core) and has good acting. Williams manages to hold back a bit from his usual barrage of vocal effects and facial expressions, and a few of his scenes are peddled quite softly (as they were in "Awakenings"). Also quite fine are Bill Cosby as Jack's initial tutor and Jennifer Lopez as his schoolteacher. The little boys are way over-the-top, and some of their gross-out talk is just stupid (they hole up in a tree house, equipped with TV, looking at nudie magazines--probably an attempt to mirror grown-ups but it plays sour). Oddly, Coppola can't stop himself from ultimately tugging at the old heartstrings, and not just once but for an entire sequence and an epilogue! I could have done without the "seven years later" bit, but for the most part this is a warm family comedy with a bigger heart than it knows what to do with. ** from ****

danmax The director of epics such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and The Conversation has made another wonderful film, just like the aforementioned.Robin Williams is fabulous as the eponymous character, and his Jack has echoes of Martin Sheen in Apocalypse, Brando in Godfather and Hackman in Conversation. All these characters are in a deep, intellectual soul-searching mission, and Williams delivers a wonderfully nuanced performance, as the lonely boy who has to deal with manhood all too soon.Funny that Coppola keeps talking about how Hollywood is just about money, but then he makes lovely films like Jack, The Rainmaker or Youth without Youth. Way to go, Francis.See you next time.

xredgarnetx You would have thought after HOOK that no one would ever hire Robin Williams again, least of all to play a man child, which in effect is what he also played in HOOK. This time around, Williams plays a boy who suffers from a disease that rapidly ages him, so that by the time he turns 10, he looks 40. And by the time he turns 20, he looks like John Carpenter. No, that's not right. He looks dead. Anyhow, Jack goes to school with the kiddies, and as he ages (in terrible aging makeup), he grows weaker and weaker. It is simply inconceivable that JACK was ever made. Williams is horrible. There is nothing appealing about watching a middle-aged hairy guy sitting behind a kids' classroom desk. And this was made by the director of THE GODFATHER, no less!