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    Jack Frost (1998)

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    Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) is an aspiring rock singer whose band – which includes Mark Addy from The Full Monty as his best friend and keyboard player, Mac and the film’s composer and former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin – are on the verge of making it.

    Frost’s obsession with this frankly rather uninspired covers band leads him to neglect his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and young son Charlie (Joseph Cross), although a last-minute epiphany sees him abandon a prestigious Christmas Day gig to rush home to the family.

    Unfortunately, he is killed in a car crash en route.

    A year later, Charlie is deeply depressed and toots on his dad’s old harmonica which turns out to have magic powers. Suddenly Jack is back, reincarnated as the snowman that Charlie has built on the front lawn.

    The snowman was created by Jim Henson’s workshop and was clearly intended to be cute. Sadly, it just looks creepy (Critic Roger Ebert described it as “the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from Star Wars”).

    And so Jack learns what a wonderful life it might have been had he paid less attention to his music and more to his son. Unfortunately, Jack Frost is a sloppily written rehash of just about every other film where a dad disappoints his son due to a career. There isn’t one emotion, thought or response that hasn’t been lifted from some other source.

    The dialogue is dreadful, the effects are terrible and – with the exception of an epic snowball fight and a ludicrous chase scene where the town’s bully Rory (Taylor Handley) and his cronies transform into expert stunt snowboarders – the halfhearted family melodrama was generally disappointing all round, taking just $34.5 million at the box office in the US against a budget of $85 million.

    Not be confused with the Z-movie tale of a wise-cracking homicidal snowman released the previous year with the same title.

    Jack Frost
    Michael Keaton
    Gabby Frost
    Kelly Preston
    Charlie Frost
    Joseph Cross
    Mac MacArthur
    Mark Addy
    Tuck Gronic
    Andrew Lawrence
    Spencer
    Eli Marienthal
    Dennis
    Will Rothhaar
    Natalie
    Mika Boorem
    Alexander
    Benjamin Brock
    Rory Buck
    Taylor Handley
    Mitch
    Joe Rokicki
    Pudge
    Cameron Ferre
    Sid Gronic
    Henry Rollins
    John Kaplan
    Dweezil Zappa
    Referee
    Steve Giannelli
    Dennis’ Dad
    Scott Thomson
    Spencer’s Dad
    Googy Gress
    Natalie’s Dad
    Scott Kraft
    Devil’s Goalie
    Jimmy Michaels
    Policeman Dave
    Wayne Federman
    Trevor (Lead Guitar)
    Trevor Rabin
    Scott (Bass)
    Scott Colomby
    Lili (Violin)
    Lili Haydn
    Lou (Drums)
    Louis Molino III

    Director
    Troy Miller

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