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Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill

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Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes
Nov 11, 2011
PG, 1 hr. 33 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, Elodie Tougne, Rohan Chand, Eugenio Derbez, David Spade, Nick Swardson, Tim Meadows, Allen Covert
Director: Dennis Dugan
Rated: PG
Running Time: 1 hr. 33 min.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Theater Release: Nov 11, 2011
DVD Release: Mar 06, 2012
Synopsis: Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack's wife. -- (C) Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
    Sandler has become a good actor of late, but here he gives over most of his talents to Jill, who is so screechy, needy, and lovelorn that you can hardly blame Jack for wanting to fade into the background.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    The apocalypse starts here.
  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
    It's all pretty unfunny, and leaves you too much time to wonder about other things. Like, how did this sludge ever get a PG rating?
  • Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
    It's cruel and creepy, not funny.
  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post
    It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie.
  • Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
    Extruded from Sandler's Happy Madison filmic laugh factory, Jack and Jill makes lowbrow seem like grand opera, relying once again on fart, poop and sweat jokes to inject both yuks and yucks into the proceedings.
  • Eric D. Snider, Film.com
    It is indeed every bit as lousy as it looks. So kudos to the marketing department, I guess. They nailed this one.
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
    Lazy and slapdash, the work of a comedian trusting too much in his own hilariousness.
  • Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
    Feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long, the merrymaking strained and the participants looking tired even when they're in full comic dudgeon.
  • Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine
    More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside.
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