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Quick Info

Rating

6.3/10

Release1996

Runtime1h 53m

StatusReleased

Budget$45,000,000

Revenue$58,620,973

Production

Hollywood Pictures

Great Oaks Entertainment

American Zoetrope

Movie

Jack

1996

1h 53m

6.3

Comedy

Family

Drama

Synopsis

Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After years of homeschooling, he enters public school for the first time, eager to make friends and live like any other kid—only to discover that growing up too fast means learning some of life’s hardest lessons early.

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