Jumpin' Jack Flash

1986

Action / Comedy / Romance / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 21730 21.7K

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Plot summary

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Director

Penny Marshall Photo
Penny Marshall

Top cast

Chino 'Fats' Williams Photo
Chino 'Fats' Williams as Larry
Whoopi Goldberg Photo
Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Doolittle
Phil Hartman Photo
Phil Hartman as Fred
Annie Potts Photo
Annie Potts as Liz Carlson
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966.82 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 2
1.94 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 7 / 10

"I wouldn't go out with any woman who called me a sheet!"

Undercooked, but ribald, enjoyable espionage-themed comedy about a computer programmer for a national bank in New York City who gets her own "Mission: Impossible" when a government agent taps into her system. Whoopi Goldberg really has no character to play here, so she wings it; tossing off one-liners and impersonations, she's a stitch, a true original. The production designer has decorated Whoopi's pad with offbeat movie posters, memorabilia and over-sized toys, but couldn't do much with the rest of this scenario, which dog-paddles along until we get to the predictable (though satisfying) conclusion. Some of the supporting characters (like Jim Belushi's mysterious heavy or Annie Potts' wife of a secret agent) come, go, and vanish completely, and the flick is held together with the barest minimum of tape. Still, it's a lot of fun anyway, which is completely due to Goldberg's sass. *** from ****
Reviewed by Didier-Becu 7 / 10

IT'S A GAS GAS

There aren't not that many female directors around and Penny Marshall is one of the few who scored some hits with her movies in the eighties ("She's having a baby", "The hard way") and of course "Jumpin' Jack Flash", one of those delicious comedies from the eighties that aren't dated, and that aren't silly. Whoopi Goldberg who was a bit the hot "strange" spot from Hollywood since her appearance in "The color purple" did some nice comedies from which this one must be one of the finest. She plays the role of Teresa aka Terry, a weirdo who is obsessed by movies and books, and during daytime she spend eight hours in a bank behind a computer (a must for pcfreaks to see how dated they are!!!). Her hilarious boss Mr James Page (Peter Michael Goetz) forbids her to chat, she obeys till Jumpin Jack Flash knocks. She can't resist the power not to respond and soon she discovers that Jumpin Jack Flash is a CIA-agent who is somewhere in East Europe (it was still a cold war) and he begs him to help. Sooner as Teresa thinks she has become a target from the KGB as well and as you can guess she ends up in dangerous hilarious situations (or are you kidnapped any day in a phone booth?). Absolutely do not to try to understand the plot, there isn't one and if there should be some it has no meaning...it's just a CIA-agent who runs for the KGB, that's all but that's not the reason why you should watch this, it's just to see a fine comedy that stands for 90 minutes of entertainment.
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