Home > Fantasy >

Jack Frost

Watch Now

Jack Frost (1998)

December. 11,1998
|
5.4
|
PG
| Fantasy Drama Comedy Family
Watch Now

A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.

...

Watch Trailer

Cast

Similar titles

Reviews

Alicia
1998/12/11

I love this movie so much

More
Jeanskynebu
1998/12/12

the audience applauded

More
Acensbart
1998/12/13

Excellent but underrated film

More
Stellead
1998/12/14

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

More
mark.waltz
1998/12/15

There's probably too much back story used to give the exposition to the dramatic story of a bullied kid whose father dies and comes back as a snowman. Sounds fine, right? Well, I should mention that it takes half of the film's running time for this to happen, and when it does, it's rolling like a giant snowball flying down the slopes of a slippery mountain. Then, the fun begins and it never lets up.I really didn't need much background to get the story going. Like similar fantasies like this, little background was needed other than a chance to see a live action Michael Keaton as opposed to the voice coming out of the moving mouth of the snowman. The fact that his real name is Jack Frost is his real name is a nice twist. Try to remain patient through the dull first half, and you will find yourself enjoying the funny and moving second half.

More
alexisvsims
1998/12/16

I can't believe this film flopped at the box office. This movie is so great!!! I saw it when it originally came out in 1998 and when it finally came out on VCR, I watched this movie over and over and over and over and over and over again. It came on the Disney Channel last night and I freaked. I adored the film when I was a child, but now that I am older I appreciate the message and I cried twice. It is so adoring. A little boy is devastated by the loss of his father and he gets a few last days with him as a snow man. Both Charlie and Gabby get to say goodbye to Jack and really tell each other I love you and I am always with you. How can you not like this movie?! Some people say the acting is flat, but it's so real and raw to see a completely normal family and normal kids. I think it's great. And some think the dad coming back as a snowman is lame, but it's great how he gets to see his father again no matter what form he takes. "Snowdad is better than no dad." That is awesome. I highly recommend this movie for adults and children during the holidays and during the middle of the year. It is really GREAT!!!!

More
adonis98-743-186503
1998/12/17

Jack Frost is about a father who gets killed on his way home and comes back as a snow man and i know you might think this is a hilarious joke or that this movie deserves the 5.2 rating but it doesn't because this film is underrated and great first of all Michael Keaton which i love since Batman & Batman Returns kills it in this movie also Kelly Preston was great and the little kid too. It's an emotional and funny ride threw a relationship of a father and son who try to spend more time in Christmas and i think many people cried in the end. Jack Frost is definitely one of my favorite Christmas movies ever made and i will definitely see it again soon.

More
mmallon4
1998/12/18

When I was a kid, nothing got me and my friends more hyped up in anticipation than snow. Yep - glorious white snow. To us there were few other activities as fun as playing in the snow. One major problem however; I grew up in a country in which we only get about 3-4 days a year of significant snowfall, in which it would actually settle on the ground. So when there was a significant level of snowfall, we would make the utmost use of it. Snowball fights, sledding, making snow angels and of course making a snowman.Snowmen were a subject of my childhood fascination. Why? I'm not quite sure. They just have a certain magical appeal. Whenever I would see one in someone else's garden, I would always have to point it out, "Look, a snowman!". So when my friends and I heard about the movie Jack Frost, in which a snowman comes to life, we were psyched to see it. Although there already existed the 1982 animated short The Snowman which had a similar premise, I believe Jack Frost appealed to us more for several reasons:-It was a movie more of our generation.-It was live action and the snowman looks just like a real snowman we could have created ourselves.-But most importantly, the movie was called Jack Frost. When I was younger, whenever there was a frosty night, we would always say that Jack Frost is out tonight.So one weekend myself and one of my friends rented Jack Frost on video and we thought it was an absolute blast. However even at that age we thought there were some stupid moments, such as when Charlie is hanging over a wall of snow and he's supposed to be in danger, yet the drop itself is tiny; or during the sledge chase sequence when two kids just happen to have a snowball the size of a boulder on standby to stop Charlie and Jack. However the one aspect of the film we found to be the most unbelievable was in how Charlie had not got over his father's death one year on. The reason for this is that a friend of ours had recently lost his father to an illness, yet was back in school one week later, acting as he normally would. To us, Charlie isolating himself from his friends due to his father's death one year on seemed far fetched. Several years later, I saw Jack Frost again on TV one weekend and the following Monday in school, it seems half the class also watched it and were all raving about how much we loved it; discussing our favourite moments, talking about the scenes we found to be the funniest. Even my teacher had watched it over the weekend and called it - and I quote - "a wonderful film". Of course when the advent of the internet age come upon us, I found out Jack Frost is considered a terrible film and the critics trashed it. One of the biggest criticisms I hear against the movie being that the snowman is creepy, which even to this day I've never thought so. I think he looks cute, and looks just like a snowman the average kid would make.I'm probably the only person in the world who will give this film a serious appraisal but when I was younger it did strike a chord with us kids. I watched Jack Frost again several years ago with a more mature perspective and I still enjoyed it, with a pool of happy nostalgic memories coming flooding back. Rock on Jack Frost! Snow dad is better than no dad!

More