Jack and Jill (2011) on Netflix
Jack Sadelstein, a Los Angeles advertising executive, dreads the yearly Thanksgiving visit from his twin sister Jill, whose neediness upends his home. She plans to stay through Hanukkah.
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- Rotten Tomatoes3%
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Plot summary
Jack Sadelstein is an advertising executive in Los Angeles, living with his wife Erin, their daughter Sofia and their son Gary. His twin sister Jill, who is unemployed and has stayed in the Bronx neighborhood where they grew up, comes to stay for Thanksgiving, and he braces for the visit. She has an open-ended plane ticket and informs him she will remain until Hanukkah is over. At the holiday dinner her loud behavior embarrasses a homeless guest and Erin's parents, and Jack loses his temper; Erin makes him apologize. Jill works through a checklist of things she wants to do in town. Meanwhile, a client of Jack's agency wants him to get a legendary actor to appear in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial for a new coffee.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jack and Jill (2011)
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- Jack and Jill won all ten categories at the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards, the first film to sweep the Razzies in the event's 32-year history, taking Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Actress and Worst Director.
- Adam Sandler set another Razzie record that year with 11 personal nominations, breaking Eddie Murphy's 2008 record of five nods in one ceremony for Norbit, with further nominations for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star and Just Go with It.
- On the premiere day, comedians including Jake Fogelnest started a parody Twitter account mocking the film, whose posts were retweeted by Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer before Twitter removed it that evening after a Sony executive complained.
- Director Dugan said Sandler playing both twins was always the plan, but the filmmakers skipped the Mrs. Doubtfire prosthetics approach, wanting Jill to look like a "female version of Jack" and playing up Sandler's unattractiveness as a woman.
