Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 04/08/2007(USA
Release Date: 06/17/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: First Look Pictures
A man learns about life and love from someone who has only so much of each to spare in this romantic
comedy-drama.
Jack (
Freddie Prinze Jr.) is an advertising executive in his early Thirties who has grown jaded before his time; he devotes his life to his work but doesn't believe in it, and is trapped in a cycle of habits and routines. One day,
Jack meets
Jill (
Taryn Manning), a beautiful young woman who clearly has no idea how to get around New York;
Jack helps give her directions and is soon taken by her charm and enthusiasm for life, even if he's too cynical to share her sunny optimism. Learning that
Jill needs a place to stay,
Jack offers to let her stay at his place, and while the arrangement is meant to be platonic, it doesn't take long for a romance to blossom between them.
Jill encourages them to develop a manifesto for responsible and compassionate living and
Jack's heart begins to open up, but when
Jill begins disappearing in the evenings he suspects that something is wrong. While
Jack imagines at first that
Jill's met someone else, the truth is more serious -- she's living with cystic fibrosis and despite regular treatments has only so much time left.
Jack and Jill Vs. The World was written, produced and directed by
Vanessa Parise, who also appears in the supporting cast with
Robert Forster and
Charles Martin Smith.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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