Advantages: good all round entertainment Disadvantages: no big stars
...you about it anyway.
Captain Jack was actually filmed here where I unfortunately live..lol, in Whitby, a picturesque fishing Town in the North of England, lovely in Summer and dismal at all other times, anyway the film was loosely based on one of Whitby’s own sea farers called Jack Lammiman, he was until a few years ago quite a character and this was enough to warrant a major film being made.
The star of this film is Bob Hoskins, accompanied ... ...~~Basic Story ~~
Captain Jack is as his name states the Captain of a boat, a boat now only ferrying tourists out to sea, and business is abysmal, so bad in fact that he decides to throw the towel in.
However Jack has an unusual passion, in fact a passion so strong it rules his life, no other than the seafarer of 1791 Captain Scoresby.
Jack is obsessed that Scoresby has not received his true recognition in Whitby, so he decides as a tribute he ...
Broksababie 21.10.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Captain Jack (DVD)
Starring Stephen Mendel, F William Parker, Rob Labelle, Eileen Seeley and Scott MacDonald as Jack Frost!
Packaging - Big scary skull with pointy teeth, this has nothing to do with anything in the film!
Rating - 18 (UK)
Plot - Convicted serial kiler Jack Frost is on his way to be executed when the van carrying him is overturned after colliding with an 18-wheeler and he escapes - however just as he breaks free of the prison van the tanker (which ... ...melts him into the snow below his feet.
Needless to say he comes back as a killer snowman who travels to a small town in the mountains intent on gaining revenge over the police officer who captured him and sent him to jail.
Review - The film contains lots of laughs as the townspeople concoct various ludicrous methods to finally see off the demonic snowman - did I really just say "demonic snowman"? - they eventually manage it but not before he wreaks ...
iateamonkey 08.05.2006
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He's got ice in his veins and he's cold blooded: his name is Jack Frost. After five years ... more
of terror and 38 bodies in five states serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of ...
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