Jumpin’ Jack Flash *** (1986, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts) – Classic Movie Review 7617

Director Penny Marshall’s 1986 fast-moving spy caper Jumpin’ Jack Flash stars Whoopi Goldberg (Oscar-winner for 1990’s Ghost) as a computer operator who keeps getting messages on her screen from a British agent trapped in Eastern Europe.

Whoopi runs, jumps, shouts and even dresses up as Diana Ross in this lively but rather violent adventure.

Jumpin’ Jack Flash is director Marshall’s first megabucks movie, and she handles the spy-jinks and the high jinks of the madcap plot with an appealing, easy-going confidence.

The British TV print slurs and muffles its strong language.

Also in the cast are Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jeroen Krabbé, Jonathan Pryce, Jon Lovitz, Jim Belushi, Tracey Ullman, Janey Sheridan, Peter Michael Goetz, Sara Botsford, Phil Hartman, Tracy Reiner and Paxton Whitehead.

Jumpin’ Jack Flash is directed by Penny Marshall, runs 105 minutes, is made by Lawrence Gordon Productions, Silver Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, is released by 20th Century Fox, is written by David H Franzoni, J W Melville, Patricia Irving and Christopher Thompson, is shot by Matthew F Leonetti, is produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver, is scored by Thomas Newman, and is designed by Robert Boyle.

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