Jumpin' Jack Flash
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Actor: Annie Potts, Carol Kane, John Wood, Stephen Collins, Whoopi GoldbergBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Jumpin' Jack Flash
Movie Review: The key IS the key
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very special film. It stars Whoopi Goldberg, an interesting character, a real liberal in real life, but in reel life you just don't know what kind of movie she'll make. Some of her movies are very moral and decent. The best of them (in my opinion) is Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The film begins with "Terry" (played adroitly by Whoopi) a lonely, single, working girl. The movie was made in 1986 before the internet came on the scene. Terry works at a major U.S. bank doing international SWIFT transactions. Through a (then) special hi-tech communications technology, she organizes an IM-archetype chat room with other bank employees around the world.
Then one day she gets a message on her computer from Jumpin' Jack Flash. (The voice of Jonathan Price). He's a British Intelligence agent on a secret mission. He's trapped inside the ex-Soviet Union. He needs help. The KGB is hunting him. Suddenly Terry's life is turned completely upside down.
The KGB, CIA and British Intelligence are all after her in one way or another. At Jack's request she goes to a ball at the British Embassy in New York City to try and find a man that may be able to help him. There she only finds betrayal. She find's further intrigue at Jack's apartment and through his old flame, a hot blonde otherwise known as "The Lady Sara."
But no one will help Jack. "He knows the risks and he's on his own," they all tell her.
Terry pleads with Sara. "You had a thing once." You loved him. He loved you. He still has you picture in his apartment. He still loves you! Why won't you help him? Why do you turn on your back on him when he needs you most? After all he's done for you?
Sara simply says, "I'm sorry."
Terry gets so angry. She replies, "You're not sorry. You're sad!" And you're no lady!
Other agents, Jacks's fellow MI-6 friends, are being murdered. A little girl of a dead MI-6 agent writes "KGB" in her birthday cake in a most non-plussed manner.
Terry puts her job and her very life at risk for a person she doesn't even know.
When Jack finds out she's a woman he threatens to break off all contact with her. He is chivalrous of course. He doesn't want Terry get hurt or killed. But Terry becomes very mad. She tells him, "I've got better things to do than save your butt, bud!"
Terry's made a promise never to abandon Jack, no matter that everyone else he trusted has abandoned him. She had honor and moral integrity with her word. Her word is her bond. Her word is her life. Her word embodies her honor, no matter what the cost may be. As such, you simply can't help but stand up and cheer for her. In a world of women who abandon their children and spouses and others who love them, she's special. Again, what Terry says, she means.
And in a world of lies and betrayal, the cost of truth is great. Terry is told by Archer Lincoln, a mysterious intelligence agent who appears out of nowhere, to "Get off the stage before you get carried off."
The plot thickens further when Terry is abducted and chemically interrogated by the KGB, but no one can break her. Because she's kind and good and breaks the rules only to help others, the angels have given Terry the key to saving Jack's life. She knows the key when no one, not the KGB, CIA or MI-6, has a clue.
"The key is the key."
Jim Belushi, who plays the chemical interrogator, exclaims with exasperation, "The key is the key! What the hell does that mean?"
But in fact the key IS the key. That's the thing. Terry's smart. She's figured out the key. It's the key to the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash." (B-flat). This song was made famous by The Rolling Stones and their lead singer Mick Jagger.
But there's one missing piece to the puzzle. Terry still needs The Lady Sara's help.
Will Terry's heart, which always hopes for the best and always hopes for love, finally be enough to move Sara to action? Will Sara finally become a true lady? And will Terry and Sara save Jack before the KGB kills him?
Remember in life, just as in Jumpin' Jack Flash, the key (goodness, kindness, love, keeping one's promises, forgiveness, endurance, service, selflessness, courage, risk, devotion, morality, values and honor) is the key.
Summary of Jumpin' Jack Flash
JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - DVD MovieWhoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple) gives one of her earliest and finest film performances as Terry Doolittle, a computer programmer who unwittingly becomes embroiled in an international espionage scheme, forced to outmaneuver the CIA and KGB in this riotous 1986 Cold War comedy. Doolittle, the outspoken and irreverent employee of an international bank, is working overtime one evening when her terminal receives an encrypted message pleading for help from Jumpin? Jack Flash, code name for a British spy (Jonathan Pryce) trapped in Eastern Europe. At first reluctantly and then audaciously, Doolittle becomes privy to his predicament and essential to his escape while delivering a steady stream of ribald one-liners and witty slapstick?whether it?s her Mick Jagger impersonation, police station meltdown, or infamous dress-caught-in-the-paper-shredder escapade at the British Consulate ball. A host of supporting talent includes Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Jim Belushi, the late Phil Hartman, and Stephen Collins (who shines as Marty, the mole), yet the film belongs to Whoopi. Though the plot is far-fetched and often flimsy, Penny Marshall (in her directorial debut) gives Goldberg enough latitude to showcase her immense talent in a role she obviously relishes?and audiences will too. Rated R for extreme profanity and mature themes. --Lynn Gibson
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