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JUMPIN JACK FLASH MOVIE CAROLE KANE SERIES

However it was put together, ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' succeeds neither as a Whoopi Goldberg vehicle nor as a conventional comedy. This sort of thing sometimes works, as in Eddie Murphy's triumph in the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' project originally intended for Sylvester Stallone. ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' appears to have been written to be played by almost any conventional, halfway competent actress, and then hastily remodeled in an attempt to fit the particular Whoopi Goldberg image.

‘Drive My Car’: In this quiet Japanese masterpiece, a widower travels to Hiroshima to direct an experimental version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”.

‘Passing’: Set in the 1920s, the movie centers on two African American women, friends from childhood, who can and do present as white.

‘Spencer’: Kristen Stewart stars as an anguished, rebellious Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s answer to “The Crown.”.

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Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. Watching Miss Goldberg attempt to scale herself down to the demands of this desperate endeavor is to see the triumph of compromise as the terminal disease of show business. The movie opens today at the RKO National Twin and other theaters. She's a volatile natural resource that can't easily be contained by means as frail and soft-headed as those offered by ''Jumpin' Jack Flash,'' her first and - let's hope - her worst motion-picture comedy. Miss Goldberg is both an actress and a performer.

JUMPIN JACK FLASH MOVIE CAROLE KANE SERIES

Under the supervision of Mike Nichols, and with a minimum of props, she created a series of sharp, naive, worldly, lost, always eccentric characters, as well as the worlds they inhabited. In her earlier, one-woman Broadway show, ''Whoopi Goldberg,'' and especially in its beautifully edited, somewhat reworked adaptation for Home Box Office, she'd been even better. Other medicinal drugs are misused in order to trap people and gain information out of them, and there is reference to taking acid.AS she demonstrated in Steven Spielberg's ''Color Purple,'' in which she gave a good, disciplined performance in a production that could otherwise have used some of her restraint, Whoopi Goldberg is a legitimate actress -one capable of submerging her own personality in the interests of a particular characterization.

But both alcohol and tobacco consumption is referenced as much as it's shown. As part of this, there is some social drinking in moderation depicted. Language is frequent and coarse and includes "f-k," "motherf-r," "d-k," "a-hole." Consumerism is infrequent, but there are some wealthy and establishment-figure supporting characters who attend high-society functions and live a lavish lifestyle. Sex is referenced rather than shown, with innuendo, and mention of oral sex and prostitution. But there are gun battles with some death. There is strong diversity across the cast, led by Goldberg, but some dated humor about Soviet Russia and other national stereotypes. She shows courage and determination as the stakes become more life and death. The central character is Terry Doolittle (Whoopi Goldberg), a computer operator at a bank, who becomes embroiled in an internal spying mystery. Parents need to know that Jumpin' Jack Flash is a 1986 comedy with strong language and moments of violence.