Jack
Jack is a 1996 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams. The film co-stars Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby, and Brian Kerwin. Williams plays the role of Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster than normal as a result of Werner syndrome, a form of progeria.
Plot
The film begins as Karen Powell goes into labor during a costume party and is rushed to the hospital by her husband, Brian, and their friends. Although the delivery is successful, the baby is extremely premature, born after only ten weeks of pregnancy. Strangely, the infant seems to be a normal, healthy, full-term baby. After examinations and tests, the infant, now named Jack, is found to have an exaggerated form of Werner syndrome. Dr. Benfante and Dr. Lin diagnose a very rare autosomal recessive disorder. Their prognosis is that Jack will develop and age at a rate four times as fast as an average child, rendering him "sick as frick" as Dr. Lin explains colloquially.
More details
| author | Gary Nadeau James DeMonaco |
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| contentLocation | San Francisco Bay Area |
| director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| editor | Barry Malkin |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | adult magazine adult magazines angina arrest baby back to school basketball basketball hoop best friend childbirth costume party exaggerated fake eye first crush game group of friends high school graduation id labor madballs pornography premature premature birth public school scar school school principal seclude shock state school traumatize tutor werner syndrome yell |
| musicBy | Michael Kamen |
| producer | Francis Ford Coppola Fred Fuchs Ricardo Mestres |
| productionCompany | American Zoetrope Great Oaks Entertainment Hollywood Pictures |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| recordedAt | San Francisco |
| theme | high school |