Watch: Matching Jack 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – A woman struggles with her son’s illness and her husband’s infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules..
Plot: A woman struggles with her son’s illness and her husband’s infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
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Another entry in the Tass/Parker Hall Of Hell
Technically competent and adequately performed Hallmark fare. Nadia Tass has to be a contender for Australia’s own version of the “Otto Preminger Upward Failure” Trophy – an infamous award from Esquire Magazine accorded to the Swedish Hollywood director who started his career with a half decent film and got steadily worse thereafter. Since “Malcolm” (1986) , it’s been downhill ever since for Ms Tass – and yet she seems to get automatically funded. It must be a Melbourne thing (ref Paul Cox et al).This film stinks on every level – because of its disguise as a quality film. It’s cloying cast mug and perform by numbers. The plot comes from a weekend Robert McKee course and the resolution would probably even send hallmark executives asking for a shootout. The soundtrack is also pure saccharine, just in case you miss the point. There’s no meat on any of the bones in this – it’s all predictable and “charming”. UUgh.
Avoid at all costs.
Oh, the score of 2 is for the her husband’s cinematography … which is excellent, as always.
a shamelessly manipulative tear jerker of the first order
We’ve had a few dramas that deal with terminal cancer patients making the most of their limited time, including Hawks with Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards, and the recent The Bucket List, with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson having the time of their lives. But when a film deals with young kids dying of leukemia then it becomes especially moving and heart wrenching. And that’s what we get with Matching Jack, the first film in over a decade from the film making team of Nadia Tass and David Parker (Malcolm, The Big Steal, etc).The pair have astute commercial sensibilities, and their films have picked up numerous awards along the way. For most of the past decade Tass has been working on television dramas like Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, etc. Tass returns to feature film with this moving drama about a mother’s desperate struggle to save her son.
When previously healthy Jack Hagen (Tom Russell) falls ill and is diagnosed with leukemia, he ends up sharing a hospital ward with Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Finn’s widowed father Connor (James Nesbitt) is eternally optimistic and up beat despite his son’s illness. While waiting to find news of a marrow donor who could potentially save Jack, Marissa (Jacinda Barrett) discovers her husband’s infidelity. Desperately she tracks down his former illicit lovers in the hope that one of his illegitimate offspring may be the match Jack needs. A strong friendship develops between the two boys, while Connor also comes to respect Marissa’s strength and resilience.
What could have been an overly saccharine film is given large injections of warmth and humour. Working from a script penned by Parker and first time writer Lynne Renew, Tass deftly mixes pathos and tears with generous dollops of winning humour. There are a few bits that stretch credulity, such as Connor giving the two boys a ride down a hospital corridor on a bed transformed into a makeshift boat, and the boys going on a secret outing to Luna Park.
The film has been beautifully acted by the solid cast. Irish import Nesbitt is very good as Connor, and gives a sensitive, nuanced performance. Barrett gives a heartfelt performance as Jack’s distraught mother. Richard Roxburgh is good as the sleazy David. While the adult performers are all good, it is the two young boys who give the movie its heart and soul and solid emotional punch. Russell (Last Ride, etc) is very good as Jack, while the consistently excellent Smit-McPhee (The Road, Romulus My Father, etc) is superb and continues to impress.
Matching Jack is a shamelessly manipulative tear jerker of the first order, and cinemas should hand out boxes of tissues with every ticket sold.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Nadia Tass
Writer Lynne Renew, David Parker
Actors Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell
Country Australia
Awards 3 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Sony F23 (some scenes)
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (some scenes), Digital
Cinematographic Process Digital Capture, Super 35 (some scenes)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema