Maybe all of that was a subtle effort at self-awareness, seeing as how the marketing for Jack Flash must have been a strange process. Terry, Whoopi’s protagonist, has very unpredictable taste in movies. There’s one for The Maltese Falcon, one for Casablanca, a random cardboard cutout of Paul Newman. The most bizarre inclusion is a poster for Kiss of the Spider Woman, which just came out less than a year before Jack Flash. Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick is next to The Cherry Orchard, much to the chagrin (or pride) of Chekhov. To say nothing of the various trinkets and whatzits and doohickeys and baskets of accouterments scattered throughout the apartment, the movie posters coating the walls are a) the kind of thing you see in bedrooms in Brink! and b) very obviously selected at random. Another Happy Days-related alum leaps to mind in the form of Ron Howard, who would find great success behind the camera but not before making his first movie Grand Theft Auto.įirst things first: the set designer on this film must have either been attempting to sabotage poor Penny or in the throes of a major bender, because the decorations in Whoopi’s studio apartment amount to sheer insanity. As is the case with many such transitions, Jack Flash is really only noteworthy in a retrospective review of a one-day-great director.
Jack Flash is the transition piece from the Laverne & Shirley days (she was Laverne) and also serves as her first real foray into feature filmmaking.
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One such not-yet was behind the camera in the form of Penny Marshall, one day destined to direct the likes of Big, Awakenings, A League of Their Own and more alongside her numerous TV credits. You can just watch The View if you’re into Whoopi’s ‘tude, right? Unless you prefer a different kind of supporting cast, essentially one made up not of has-beens but of not-yets. Apparently people actually like Jumpin’ Jack Flash, judging by the surprising number of nostalgia-fueled pieces about Whoopi’s young comedy days, but apart from an amusement with her indomitable ‘tude I can’t imagine why. If you want to make an omelette, the saying goes, first you have to make a remarkably unexceptional non-starter featuring Whoopi Goldberg as a tech whiz embroiled in an espionage scandal.
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