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Jack Frost is a 1998 Christmas comedy drama film, starring Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston. Keaton stars as the title character, a man who dies in a car accident and comes back to life as a snowman. Three of Frank Zappa's four children: Dweezil Zappa, Ahmet Zappa, and Moon Unit Zappa, appear in the film. In the United States the film is rated PG by the MPAA.[citation needed]
Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) is the lead singer in a band simply titled "The Jack Frost Band", based in the fictional town of Medford, Colorado, who make their living performing blues covers and an assortment of their own songs in the hope of signing a record deal. He then returns to his son Charlie (Joseph Cross), who has just returned from an epic snowball fight against the bully Rory Buck (Taylor Handley). They spend some quality time by building a snowman in their front yard. Afterward, Jack tucks Charlie into bed and gives him a harmonica, which he tells Charlie he got the day Charlie was born. He then jokes with Charlie, telling him that it's magical, and he'll be able to hear the harmonica wherever he is. Jack promises his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) that he will attend his son's hockey game. However, he misses the hockey game in favor of recording the ironically named "Don't Lose Your Faith". Jack then promises to take his family on a Christmas trip to the mountains, but is called in on a gig that could either make or break his career. On his way to the gig, Jack realizes his mistake and borrows his best friend Mac's (Mark Addy) car to go home and be with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins to block his view. Due to a faulty windshield wiper on Mac's car, Jack is unable to navigate through the storm, and as a result, he crashes his car, and is killed instantly (offscreen).
Actors: Caroll Spinney (actor), Miranda Cosgrove (actress), Caroll Spinney (actor), Jason Ritter (actor), Kanye West (actor), Fran Brill (actress), Terrence Howard (actor), Matt Lauer (actor), Kevin Clash (actor), Juanes (actor), Al Roker (actor), Arlo Guthrie (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Jane Krakowski (actress), Gladys Knight (actress),
Genres: Family, Music,Actors: David Holt (actor), Sacha Puttnam (composer), Hiroshi Kawamata (director), Emily Dormer (actress), Ellen Howard (actress), Lisa Pacheco (producer), Lucy Delaiche (actress), Grace Vance (actress),
Genres: Animation,Actors: Lindsay Goranson (actress), Craig Boyer (writer), Craig Boyer (editor), Craig Boyer (miscellaneous crew), James St. Vincent (actor), Derek Underwood (producer), Lee Keeler (actor), Kenneth Wonderley (actor), Hanny Purnomo Boyer (director), Hanny Purnomo Boyer (miscellaneous crew), Sumie Garcia (costume designer), Patrick M. Hayes Jr. (producer), Zack Gresham (composer), Handy Purnomo (producer), Scott Copeland (actor),
Plot: Joseph Eastman is not much different from the ordinary people around us. Stuck in his mundane life, Joseph, 35, cannot find the means to move on emotionally from his recent divorce. Little does he know that inspiration can spring from simple things around him, like his daily job as a portrait photographer.
Keywords: asian, independent-film, student-film, third-worldActors: Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), André Des Rochers (miscellaneous crew), Terry Leonard (producer), Krysten Ritter (actress), Robert Bogue (actor), Kathy Searle (actress), Monet Mazur (actress), Anne Elora Keller (miscellaneous crew), Carlos Velazquez (actor), Carlos Velazquez (producer), Jason Behr (actor), María Jurado (actress), Alexander Norton (miscellaneous crew), Marlo Carroll (miscellaneous crew), Mike Landry (producer),
Plot: Jack Frost's playboy lifestyle in New York City is rocked by the news that his childhood love is engaged. Amidst his friendships with Scotch Evans, a ribald nightlife correspondent; Ozzy, a troubled but loving heroin addict; and Kate Hardwick, a bewitching, quick-witted reporter, Jack sinks deeper into depression. Haunted by lost-love and his mother's suicide, Jack plunges into whiskey and self-destruction . . . until his eleven-year-old neighbor, Sophie, an unlikely mother figure, leads Jack back into himself, and out of the nostalgia and excess that consumed him.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, one-word-titleActors: Doug Jones (actor), Chris Anderson (composer), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Ray Cooney (actor), Arthur Dix (miscellaneous crew), Robert E. Baruc (producer), Christopher Allport (actor), Jennifer Lyons (actress), Vanessa Marshall (actress), Whitney J. Willard (miscellaneous crew), Marsha Clark (actress), Brett Boydstun (actor), Heath Banks (miscellaneous crew), Karen Sanquist (miscellaneous crew), Kurt Bryant (actor),
Plot: In this sequel of the first Jack Frost movie, Sheriff Sam Tiler, his wife Anne, and Sam's two deputies (also husband and wife) decide to go on a Caribbean vacation to take their minds off the traumatic events of the previous movie in a place with absolutely no snow. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertantly re-frozen and brought back to life. As if that weren't bad enough, he now has the ability to remain frozen even in tropical temperatures, and he's headed south to settle some old scores.
Keywords: anvil, bare-breasts, blood, character-name-in-title, christmas, christmas-horror, comical-female-death, costume-party, dead-woman-with-eyes-open, drowningActors: Troy Miller (director), Kyle Cooper (miscellaneous crew), Mark Canton (producer), Trevor Rabin (composer), Henry Rollins (actor), Trevor Rabin (actor), Paul F. Tompkins (actor), Kelly Preston (actress), Michael Keaton (actor), Pat Crawford Brown (actress), Googy Gress (actor), Bruce Lanoil (actor), Jay Johnston (actor), Beau Holden (miscellaneous crew), David Guilbeau (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: 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?
Keywords: alienation, animal-in-cast-credits, anthropomorphic-snowman, audio-flashback, band, best-friend, blizzard, box-office-flop, boy, broken-promiseActors: Jules Bass (producer), Paul Frees (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Red Buttons (actor), Bob McFadden (actor), Don Messick (actor), Arthur Rankin Jr. (director), Jules Bass (director), Romeo Muller (writer), Arthur Rankin Jr. (producer), Ethel Merman (actress), Shelley Winters (actress), Mickey Rooney (actor), Harold Peary (actor),
Plot: Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July so that Frosty and Rudolph can help Lilly's circus and Milton can marry his girlfriend on the high-wire, and Santa will use his sleigh to make sure everybody gets back to the North Pole in time...which leaves Winterbolt alone at the North Pole on the Fourth...
Keywords: based-on-song, character-name-in-title, christmas, christmas-in-july, circus, fourth-of-july, frosty-the-snowman, holiday, holiday-in-title, independence-dayActors: Shelley Winters (actress), Paul Frees (actor), Andy Griffith (actor), Arthur Rankin Jr. (director), Jules Bass (director), Romeo Muller (writer), Arthur Rankin Jr. (producer), Jules Bass (producer), Dennis Day (actor), Jackie Vernon (actor), Shelly Hines (actress), Eric Stern (actor), Barbara Jo Ewing (actress), Manfreed Olea (actor),
Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Short,Actors: Tatyana Pelttser (actress), Georgiy Millyar (actor), Aleksandr Khvylya (actor), Valentin Bryleev (actor), Aleksandr Khvylya (actor), Inna Churikova (actress), Mikhail Yanshin (actor), Nikolay Erdman (writer), Mikhail Volpin (writer), Vera Altayskaya (actress), Anatoli Kubatsky (actor), Margarita Korabelnikova (actress), Anastasiya Zuyeva (actress), Aleksandr Rou (director), Yuri Chekulayev (actor),
Plot: Strange Russian fairy tale dealing with a boy and a girl who go through the strangest situations to be with one another. The boy is transformed by a Mushroom Pixie into a bear, and almost baked by an evil witch who controls trees. The girl is given the Cinderella treatment by her mother and her sister who is jealous of her long braided hair. Jack Frost himself doesn't appear until late in the movie.
Keywords: bandit, bear, black-cat, boy, cat, cauldron, children, curse, dog, fairy-taleActors: Ralph Dixon (editor), Arthur Millett (actor), Noah Beery (actor), Matt Moore (actor), Jack Nelson (actor), Louise Glaum (actress), Peggy Pearce (actress), William Conklin (actor), C. Gardner Sullivan (writer), C. Gardner Sullivan (writer), Joseph Henabery (director), J. Parker Read Jr. (miscellaneous crew), J. Parker Read Jr. (producer), J. Parker Read Jr. (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama,And now I walk away
My entire past I've swallowed
The days are gone
When we did glow
Time has passed
I failed to grow
[Chorus:]
And our faces wither
And now I leave my way
My entire life got swallowed
The days are gone
When we did glow
Time has passed