Jack
by Lee Rose
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Actor: Anton Yelchin, Brent Spiner, Erich Anderson, Ron Silver, Stockard ChanningDirector: Lee Rose
Brand: SHW
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Showtime Ent.
DVD Reviews of Jack
DVD Review: A Good Story in Search of a Good Lead Actor
Summary: 4 Stars
JACK is a good film: the story is sound (although strangely naive in today's informed youth culture), the topic is timely, the acting by Stockard Channing and Ron Silver is excellent, but the total impact fails because of the consistently flat performance by Anton Yelchin as the lead character Jack.
Anne (Stockard Channing) and Paul (Ron Silver) are divorcing in a primarily civilized way. The reason for the dissolution of this previously happy family unit is kept secret from 15 year old Jack (Anton Yelchin) who has to find out from his high school friends in a rather demeaning way that his father is gay and has a gay lover. Despite Paul's attempts to maintain an amicable relationship with Anne and his children he is unable to accept his own sexuality to the extent that he attempts to closet his true persona. Once through that phase he encourages Jack to be with him and his lover Bob (Paul McGillian) but nothing assuages Jack's resentment of his father's "deserting" him and his mother.
Jack's refuge is in his friend Max Burka (Giacomo Baessato) and in the girl Jack desires - Maggie (Brittany Irvin)- whose father is openly gay and just happens to be good friends with Jack's father. The manner in which Anne, Paul, and Jack come to terms with the new life that impacts them all is the point of the story. And it is to the writer's credit that the ending is not simply pat.
Stockard Channing finds just the right amount of compassion and rage in her role of the mother who must cope with the changes in her happy life and Ron Silver manages to avoid all the tired mannerisms that usually befall the 'new gay dad' role. Anton Yelchin is a good young actor: he simply is not credible in a role that invites credibility. Grady Harp, December 2004
Description of Jack
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 01/02/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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