The premise of this movie is a child has a strange ailment which causes his cells to magture 4x faster than normal. Jack Powell (Robin Williams) is ten with the body of a 40 year old, with shaving and everythig. His mother (Diane Lane) is very protective, but finally convinced to allow him to go to school. Father (Brian Kerwin) is more open to the idea. You can imagine someone with a 40 yo body attending elementary school. The other kids, initially don't treat him very well, but he is tall when when they play basketball he finds a niche, and begins to fit in. He actually makes a few friends, Louise, Edward, John-John, George and Johnny (Adam Zolotin, Todd Bosley, Seth Smith, Mario Yedidia and Jer Adrienne Elliott.). They invite Jack to their tree house. Before Jack went to school, he had a private tutor (Bill Cosby), The tutor comes to the tree house has well, and the tree falls. I didn't understand the motivation for having th tutor in the tree house. It didn't make sense to me. Jack has some difficulty navigating his world looking like an adult. He makes a pass at his teacher (Jennifer Lopez) and is rejected. His life spirals down and he quits school until his friends convince him to come back.
Enjoyable but I didn't understand the tutor character. Seems the motivation was off.
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