Jumpin' Jack Flash (film)
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| Jumpin' Jack Flash | |
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| Directed by | Penny Marshall |
| Produced by | Lawrence Gordon Joel Silver |
| Written by | David Franzoni J.W. Melville Patricia Irving Chris Thompson |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Jon Lovitz Carol Kane Stephen Collins Phil Hartman Annie Potts Jonathan Pryce John Wood Roscoe Lee Browne Peter Michael Goetz |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Editing by | Mark Goldblatt |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | October 10, 1986 (U.S.)  February 19, 1987 (Australia)  May 1, 1987 (UK)  |
| Running time | 100 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million |
| Gross revenue | $127 million |
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- This article is about the movie. For the song, see Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Jumpin' Jack Flash is an Academy Award-nominated comedy-thriller film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, John Wood, Annie Potts and Jonathan Pryce. Emmy-winning TV actress Penny Marshall directs the film (which is her first.)
[edit] Plot
Teresa "Terri" Dolittle (Whoopi Goldberg), is a typical New York fund transferer for the First National Bank in Manhattan. In her office she does not fit in. Her desk is full of funny ornaments and is very decorative. She is often told off by her boss James Page (Peter Michael Goetz)for chatting in an informal manner to other bank computer workers around the globe. One night she is contacted by a man calling himself "Jumpin' Jack Flash", who turns out to be a British spy stuck in a hostile country in eastern Europe. He appeals to Terri to help him return home safely, sending her on wacky and dangerous adventures all over New York.
The film was one of the first to feature online communications as a key part of the plot.
The soundtrack includes two versions of the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash"; one by Aretha Franklin, and the other by The Rolling Stones.
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