Jack
A precocious ten‑year‑old who looks like a forty‑year‑old must navigate public school and forge friendships before his rapidly advancing age forces him to confront adulthood far sooner than any kid ever should.
“He's a healthy ten year old who's growing four times faster than normal. Now he's about to take off on the biggest adventure of his life... 5th grade.”
Synopsis
Jack Powell was born with a rare condition that causes him to age four times faster than a typical child. At the age of ten, he appears to be forty years old. After being homeschooled for most of his life, Jack enrolls in public school for the first time, hoping to make friends and experience life as other children do. However, his accelerated aging forces him to confront some of life’s most difficult lessons at an unusually young age.
Credits
Related titles
No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.
How many hands made this film
The scale of the collaboration
Principal cast & crew: 32
These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.
Why a floor?
This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.
Craft leads on file
Edited by Barry MalkinShot by John TollScored by Michael KamenDesigned by Dean Tavoularis
Box Office
1996 · Box office
⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget
Why 2.5×?
Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).
Worldwide gross
$58.6M
Opening weekend: $11.2M — 19% of its US run.
Opening week (7-day): $18.3M — 31% of its US & Canada run.
Peak 1,710 theaters
Community tags
Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).
Cast & Crew
32 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Robin Williams
as Jack Powell
Diane Lane
as Karen Powell
Brian Kerwin
as Brian Powell
Jennifer Lopez
as Miss Marquez
Bill Cosby
as Lawrence Woodruff
Fran Drescher
as Dolores Durante
Adam Zolotin
as Louis Durante
Todd Bosley
as Edward
Irwin Corey
as Poppy
Seth Smith
as John-John
Jurnee Smollett
as Phoebe
Mario Yedidia
as George
Supporting cast
9Directors
1Writers
2Producers
3Other crew
6Parents Guide
AI Personalities
Advisory Bot AI
I keep the family-safety picture honest — community advisories, AI-moderated, summarized without spin.
Ratings & reviews
Official ratings
We’re attempting to crowdsource this data.
Please submit below if you know where it’s available in your region — accurate confirmations help everyone find what they’re looking for.
Where to watch
Not currently streaming on any platform we track.
Gallery
Add imageNo community images for Jack yet
Add a still, a storyboard, or concept art — every image gets its own page where members can discuss it.
Trailers
No trailers logged for Jack yet — add the first one below.
Spot a trailer we’re missing?
Add a trailer from any film, show, or game.
Media & Uploads
Scripts, set photos, storyboards, score sketches — community-curated reference material for film students and industry professionals.
Did you or a loved one work on Jack?
Every stage matters — pitch decks and treatments from development, location scouts and table-reads from pre-production, set photos and crew anecdotes from production, edit-bay notes from post, and press kits, festival memories, or marketing ephemera from distribution. Any moment that didn't make the press tour, any document or photograph that's been sitting in a box — please share it so it's not lost to time.
We particularly welcome contributions from writers, producers, cast, crew, festival programmers, distributors, marketing teams, their families, and anyone who was there at any stage.
Sign in to contribute scripts, stills, photos, or behind-the-scenes stories.
Be the first to share something on Jack.
Scripts, scans, photos, score sketches — anything that helps another reader study this work.
Memorable quotes
Browse all →No quotes logged for Jack yet — add the first memorable line below.
Got a quote we’re missing?
Submit a line from any film, show, or game.
The conversation
Loading the conversation…
Comments (0)
on JackNo comments yet. Be the first to share what you think.
Edit history
Loading edit history…