King Jack

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Cast

Charlie Plummer
as Jack

Cory Nichols
as Ben

Danny Flaherty
as Shane

Christian Madsen
as Tom

Erin Davie
as Karen

Yainis Ynoa
as Harriet

Chloë Levine
as Holly

Scarlet Lizbeth

Melvin Mogoli
as Beavan

Francis Piscopo
as Eric

Elijah Richardson
as Malcolm

Tony Divitto
as Howard

Robert Nadig
as Mr. Bodenheimer

Meeko Gattuso
as Ray

Keith Leonard
as Police Officer

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• Jan 31, 2018

  Following the unexpected success of Winter's Bone in 2010, these dark, modern, noirish type films have been all the rage in Hollywood. In fact, these types of films have come to define the 2010 generation of film. Mostly set in rural areas, focusing on the lives of less fortunate people, these films tend to focus on some life defining moment. King Jack certaintly fits this model, and much like Winter's Bone, it is also a coming of age story. Jack (Charlie Plummer) is an angry fifteen year old, who has been bullied his whole life and acts out by getting in trouble. After a family issue, his younger cousin Ben (Cory Nichols) is forced to stay with Jack and his family. At first Jack is upset to be saddled with his naive younger relative, until he comes to realize they're in the same boat, and in Ben he may have found a potential ally. I understand that the premise of the movie is that Jack is a bullied kid, befriends another bullied kid, and all of a sudden their lives don't suck as much anymore, except that they do. Just because they found each other doesn't mean the bullies have gone or that their family situations will necessarily be any better, so what was the point? Watching this film, was simply watching a couple of teenagers hang out in a bad neighborhood, waiting for something substantial to happen. A few events happen here and there, but nothing life altering, and certainly nothing to base a film off of. To be honest, the whole thing was kind of boring. In general, I love this new style of film making, but when it came to King Jack, there were a couple of crude jokes, some anti-climatic scenes, and just a whole lot of nothing going on.
  Todd S Super Reviewer
• May 05, 2016

  A superb and very gritty teenage coming of age drama that shows juvenile delinquency at its worst. Hard to watch at times but it shows perfectly the tough life that others experience and that, deep down, they may actually be a good person trying to do the right thing.
  

  Ian W Super Reviewer

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