Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 08/03/2004
SubTitles: French
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
In this film by director
Francis Ford Coppola,
Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children consider him a freak, and generally avoid him. He is finally required to go to public school, and we catch up to him as he enters the fourth grade for the first time, a 10-year-old boy who appears to be a fully grown man in his 40s. His classmates tease him mercilessly until they begin to see the advantages of having him around. He must also have some grown-up feelings to go along with his grown-up body, because he asks his teacher out for a date. When she refuses him, he goes off into town and gets into adult-type trouble as he courts nightclub denizen Dolores Durante (
Fran Drescher) over the objections of her boyfriend. Teacher Lawrence Woodruff (
Bill Cosby) tries (with some success) to help Jack cope with his situation.
~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide