Jack Frost (1998) on Netflix
Jack Frost fronts a rock band and often misses time with his son Charlie and wife Gabby. A year after a crash in a snowstorm, he returns inside the snowman Charlie builds.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb5.5/1044,918 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes19%
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Plot summary
Jack Frost is a singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his son Charlie, although they love each other very much. When Jack dies in a car accident, Charlie becomes a very sad young man, until... Jack returns as a snowman! Now they can do all the things they've missed when Jack was human, but what will people think when they see Charlie talking to a snowman and what will happen when the weather gets warmer?
Cast
- Joe Rokickias Mitch
- Cameron Ferreas Pudge
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jack Frost (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- George Clooney was originally set to star as Jack Frost, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop made the character look like Clooney before Clooney left the project.
- Roger Ebert gave the film one out of four stars and wrote that the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic had put their heads together and come up with "the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects", and he was not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from Star Wars.
- Sam Raimi was originally attached to direct but dropped out when Clooney did; when Raimi was first attached the film was envisioned as a more direct adaptation of Frosty the Snowman, including originally being developed under that title.
- Produced on an $85 million budget, Jack Frost took $7 million on its opening weekend, ranking third behind Star Trek: Insurrection and A Bug's Life, and went on to gross less than $34.6 million in North America, becoming a box office flop.
- John Travolta was also considered for the lead role, and Billy Bob Thornton was in talks for the role of Mac MacArthur.
- Three of Frank Zappa's four children - Dweezil Zappa, Ahmet Zappa and Moon Unit Zappa - all appear in the film.
