Jack might not be Francis Ford Coppola's best-loved film, but the director is paying it some love on its 30th anniversary.
The Godfatherdirector marked the anniversary on Instagram in a post with production company American Zoetrope, looking back at the movie's premiere at a charity benefit. The social media clip shows the film's star, Robin Williams, acting out a scene with his young co-star, Adam Zolotin.
"I loved making Jack and thought it was imaginative and unusual, despite the fact that the theme had been dealt with perfectly in Big by Penny Marshall. And the ending of Jack is very touching," the social media post read.
The caption concludes: “Robin Williams plays Jack, a 10-year-old boy in a 40-year-old’s body. In this rehearsal clip with Adam Zolotin, the two adlib their way playfully through song, with the young Louis coercing his nervous friend to pretend to be the principal so that he won’t get in trouble with his mother.”
View this post on InstagramJack follows the titular boy who ages four times quicker than normal due to a unique medical condition. By the time he is 10-years-old, he looks 40 and is played by the late, great Robin Williams. The movie heartfelly depicts his loneliness and struggles as an outsider with a fictional illess. Diane Lane and Brian Kerwin play Jack's protective parents while Jennifer Lopez appears as his teacher, whom he forms a crush on.
Jack is one of Coppola's poorly received films and has generally been forgotten by the general public. “Jack doesn’t want to be a great movie. It only wants to pluck the usual heartstrings and provide the anticipated payoff," Roger Ebert wrote at the time.
In a 2009 interview with Esquire, Coppola responded to this criticism, “People feelthe worst film I made was Jack. But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I’ve made, Jack is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that.”
“If people hate the movie, they hate the movie,” he admitted, per Far Out Magazine “I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.” The late actor is often cited as highlight of this film, will only has a 17% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Last week would have marked William's 75th bithday.
"The movie manages to transcend the material -- mostly because of Williams and his perpetually Morkian innocence -- and become a satisfying, occasionally maudlin tale of belonging, understanding the passage of time and living for the moment," Ted Anthony wrote for Associated Press in 2018.
While critcs may not love Jack, Challengers director Luca Guadagnino told the British Film Institute in 2024 that he thinks the film is one of Coppola's best. “In Jack, you feel the way in which he’s taking this kind of conventional story but bringing humanity, and the way in which the world is created. It’s so beautiful,” the Italian director explained.
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