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Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash

  • Status: Released
  • 09-10-1986
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Score: 6.089
  • Vote count: 378

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.

Whoopi Goldberg

Terry Dolittle

Stephen Collins

Marty Phillips

John Wood

Jeremy Talbott

Carol Kane

Cynthia

Annie Potts

Liz Carlson

Peter Michael Goetz

Mr. Page

Roscoe Lee Browne

Archer Lincoln

Sara Botsford

Lady Sarah Billings

Jeroen Krabbé

Mark Van Meter

Vyto Ruginis

Carl

Jonathan Pryce

Jack

Tony Hendra

Hunter

Jon Lovitz

Doug

Phil Hartman

Fred

Lynne Marie Stewart

Karen

Ren Woods

Jackie

Tracy Reiner

Page's Secretary

Chino 'Fats' Williams

Larry

Jim Belushi

Sperry Repairman

Paxton Whitehead

Lord Malcolm Billings

June Chadwick

Gillian

Tracey Ullman

Fiona

Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Street Tough

Garry Marshall

Police Detective (uncredited)

Michael McKean

Leslie (uncredited)

Teagan Clive

Russian Exercise Woman

John Chard

Are you on some kind of medication? It was a production beset with problems, a change of director (Penny Marshall replacing the jettisoned Howard Zieff) and enough script writers used to fill out a hockey team. So it's unsurprising to find that Jumpin' Jack Flash is a bit muddled, not fully formed as it were. Plot finds Whoopi Goldberg as a computer programmer thrust into a world of espionage when a plea for help appears on her monitor. Cue Whoopi following instructions from a guy claiming to be trapped in Eastern Europe, which of course leads to a number of fun scenes as she bluffs her way around the crooked underworld she now finds herself in. Will she stay alive long enough? Who are the undercover guys? Is the mysterious man on the computer screen really all he proclaims to be? It will all be answered in rank and file 1980s action comedy time, which as it happens is OK here because Goldberg is a good enough comedy actress to hold the attention. Nothing remotely smart or genre defining exists, but it's a fun snapshot of the burgeoning computer age in the 80s and it's a good time waster if stuck for something light to watch one night. 6/10