Jack

Jack (1996)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (30 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (208,385 ratings)

In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children consider… More

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PG-13,
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Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Aug 9, 1996 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

    Barf.

  • Clint Morris, Moviehole

    Williams at his versatile best

  • Michael A. Smith, Nolan's Pop Culture Review

    Robin Williams is a big kid. Wow, what a stretch.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    High ickiness quotient in this weird dramedy

  • Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

    Coppola, of course, was abducted by aliens and replaced with a pod person in the middle of filming Godfather III.

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  • Jeff "


    Jack is one of Francis Ford Coppola's most mediocre outings as a director. The film had plenty of good potential of being a great film, but it falls flat and just ends up being mediocre. I thought the film started off well, but it just fell apart as the story progressed. The film… More

  • Lucas M


    Not the worst movie that I ever see, but the worst movie that Coppola could direct. Jack is the real end of the great filmmaker that made The Godfather. Rotten.

  • AJ V


    This movie has such a strange, unreal, outrageous premise, I can't decide whether it's horrible or incredibly interesting. Overall, it's just okay, I guess. Sort of another excuse for a grown man to act like a kid, I guess, and Williams knows how to do that.

  • Cassie H


    Story about how everyone is the same and no different.

  • KJ P


    Very entertaining! I know I shouldn't like it, but I find it extremely heart-felt, funny, and entertaining! It get's a great big recommendation from me!

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