Jumpin' Jack Flash

Name: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Thriller
Released: 09 Oct 1986
Rating: 6.12
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Year: 1986

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Thriller

Studio: Lawrence Gordon Productions, Silver Pictures, 20th Century Fox

Director: Penny Marshall

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Peter Michael Goetz

Crew: Joel Silver (Producer), Chris Thompson (Screenplay), David Franzoni (Screenplay), Penny Marshall (Director), Lawrence Gordon (Producer), Thomas Newman (Original Music Composer)

Runtime: 105 minutes

Release: Oct 09, 1986

IMDb: 6.12/10 by 364 users

Popularity: 1

Country: United States of America

Language: English

Budget: 18,000,000

Revenue: 29,844,101

Keyword : central intelligence agency (cia), computer, kgb, chat, mole, agent, woman director

Comment

John Chard 2019, Jan 02

Are you on some kind of medication? It was a production beset with problems, a change of director (Penny Marshall replacing the jettisoned Howard Zieff) and enough script writers used to fill out a hockey team. So it's unsurprising to find that Jumpin' Jack Flash is a bit muddled, not fully formed as it were. Plot finds Whoopi Goldberg as a computer programmer thrust into a world of espionage when a plea for help appears on her monitor. Cue Whoopi following instructions from a guy claiming to be trapped in Eastern Europe, which of course leads to a number of fun scenes as she bluffs her way around the crooked underworld she now finds herself in. Will she stay alive long enough? Who are the undercover guys? Is the mysterious man on the computer screen really all he proclaims to be? It will all be answered in rank and file 1980s action comedy time, which as it happens is OK here because Goldberg is a good enough comedy actress to hold the attention. Nothing remotely smart or genre defining exists, but it's a fun snapshot of the burgeoning computer age in the 80s and it's a good time waster if stuck for something light to watch one night. 6/10