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Jack: Mom, am I a giant?
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Jack: What do I want to be when I grow up? Alive.
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Eric: When I grow up, I want to be a gynecologist.
Miss Marquez: You need to give a reason.
Eric: You're the reason, Miss Marquez.
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[in a bar]
Jack: I'll have a Shirley Temple and some merecino cherries.
Paulie: Get him a Madonna.
[to Jack]
Paulie: Know who Madonna is right?
Jack: Who?
Paulie: Shirley Temple without the cherry.
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Brian: I remember when you first learned to ride a bike. You were so determined to ride, even though you kept wipin' out and you almost took out some of the neighbors, but eventually you got it and now you're riding like a pro.
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Angry Man: I'm a loser? You're a son of a bitch!
Jack: I can't believe you said that! You cussed! You said the B-Word! Oh, you're gonna be in so much trouble!
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Miss Marquez: When's your birthday?
Jack: September 12.
Classmate: [snickering] 1902.
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Miss Marquez: We're gonna have to change your name from Jack to Shaq.
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Principal McGee: Would you like to see your classroom?
Jack: [quietly] Yes.
Principal McGee: A little louder.
Jack: [even more quietly] Yes.
Principal McGee: A little louder, Jack.
Jack: [shouts loudly] YES!!
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Louis: Hey, you, you shoot hoops?
Jack: Who, me?
Louis: No, the 40-year-old kid behind you.
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Jack: He had the sqirts. He had Diarrhea.
Dolores: Oh boy. Well, that was more than I needed to know.
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Jack: I'm not a freak, you're a freak, four eyes!
Jane: He's ten.
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Dolores: Since when is being bad, bad?
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Description
Comedy favorite Robin Williams (FLUBBER, BICENTENNIAL MAN) lights up the screen in JACK, the acclaimed hit that had critics and audiences cheering! 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. In his wildest role ever, Williams takes you on a hilarious ride as Jack explores the ups and downs of life from a kid's point of view! With Bill Cosby (TV's THE COSBY SHOW), and sexy Fran Drescher (TV's THE NANNY), Diane Lane (UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN), and Jennifer Lopez (JERSEY GIRL) -- join the millions of moviegoers who loved this outrageous comedy hit!
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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 neighborhood 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
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