SCOUT· 54%1h 05m·2026-09-11·ComedyJack
Robin Williams plays a 10-year-old boy who looks like a 40-year-old man in the 1996 Francis Ford Coppola film Jack—a movie that wants to be a dramedy but is actually a body horror flick about boomers and their mortality. Paul, Jason, and June cover Fran Drescher's inexplicable attraction to Jack, Bill Cosby farting in…
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“I think we're forgetting that Mork and Mindy's son, Mearth, was played by Jonathan Winters because Orkans age backwards, so the germ of this movie probably came from that.”
“Saw this in the theaters as a kid, and ooof, this movie was such a bummer.”
“I remember seeing this way too young at a sleepover (some poor parent probably thought it’s just like Big) and being very upset…tonal chaos”
“I remember this movie was marketed as another Robin Williams comedy and it really wasn't. I know Coppola is a "New Hollywood" legend and made amazing culturally important films but he also directed lots of duds like this one.”
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