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Jack Be Nimble (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Garth Maxwell

Written By:
Garth Maxwell
Rex Pilgrim

Actors:
Alexis Arquette ..... Jack
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy ..... Dora
Bruno Lawrence ..... Teddy
Tony Barry ..... Clarrie
Elizabeth Hawthorne ..... Bernice
Brenda Simmons ..... Mrs. Birch
Gilbert Goldie ..... Mr. Birch
Patricia Phillips ..... Anne
Paul Minifie ..... Kevin
Sam Smith ..... Little Jack
Hannah Jessop ..... Little Dora
Nicholas Antwis ..... Jack aged 7
Olivia Jessop ..... Dora aged 8
Kristen Seth ..... Older Sister
Amber Woolston ..... Older Sister

Synopsis:

Alternating between urban affluence and rural squalor in its New Zealand setting, this contemporary update of the Brothers Grimm tells the story of a boy and his sister whose placement into very different adoptive homes can't destroy the psychic bond that connects them. An impressionistic opening scene suggests that Jack and Dora's mother has gone off her rocker; soon, the children are packed off to an orphanage, where Dora is adopted by the kindly Mr. and Mrs. Birch (Brenda Simmons and Gilbert Goldie) and Jack falls into the hands of grim farmer Clarrie (Tony Barry) and his bottled-up wife Bernice (Elizabeth Hawthorne). Years later, the teen-aged Jack (Alexis Arquette) suffers through continuing abuse from his proud, sardonic parents and their quartet of vacant-eyed, black-clad daughters. Using an invention that helps focus his nascent hypnotic powers, the lad unleashes his revenge on the family and sets off to find his real sister. Dora Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, meanwhile, has grown up within the comforts of a middle-class home but can't escape her outsider status -- or her special powers, which allow her to sense not only Jack's presence, but also the voices of the dead. With the help of Teddy (Bruno Lawrence), an older telepathic man who wants to bed her, Dora finally finds her way to Jack. But his unhappy childhood has already inflicted too much damage, poisoning the siblings' hopes of a joyful reunion with their birth parents and setting the stage for the savage vengeance of Jack's stepsisters. Garth Maxwell, who previously directed the award-winning gay short Beyond Gravity, made his feature debut with Jack Be Nimble.

The film begins with two young siblings, Jack and Dora, witnessing their mother having a nervous breakdown. After the mother deserts the children, the father decides to place them in an orphanage. The misfortune in their young lives has only just began. Soon the two are separated and placed in different foster homes. While Dora is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Birch, two kindly, doting parents, poor Jack falls into the hands of a grim farmer, Clarrie and his horrid wife, Bernice. Jack grows up being mercilessly mentally and physically abused by his foster father and mother and four evil step-sisters. Yet, despite their different fates, the brother and sister remain connected by a strong psychic bond and never stop thinking about each other.Eventually, Jacks takes his revenge on his cruel foster-parents and escapes from his bitter life to try to find his way back to Dora. Relying on the strength of their love and their mutual psychic abilities, they find their way to one another. Together, they set out to find their biological parents.Despite the struggles of their younger years, the road ahead is still not destined to be an easy one for the siblings. Dora is afraid that Jack's resentment toward their birth parents might cause him to strike out against them. Also, Jack is being trailed by his bitter, evil step sisters, who wish to exert their own revenge against Jack for his treatment of their parents.What kind of savage vengeance can of Jack expect from his stepsisters? Has his cruel childhood already inflicted too much damage, poisoning the siblings' hopes of a joyful reunion with their birth parents?

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.

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