Jack Frost (1998)
Directed by Troy Miller
A father who can't keep his promises dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has one final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
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There are only so many times one can re-watch Rare Exports or subject yourself to Michael Keaton as the talking snowman-cum-dad in Jack Frost.
A third of the way through the film, a young brother and sister sit on a couch in a snowy cabin with their dad’s fiance, watching the Christmas family favorite movie Jack Frost (the Michael Keaton version where a deceased father returns to his son as a snowman).
It has been pointed out to me that Michael Cooney did not, in fact, write the crappy 1998 comedy Jack Frost -- he wrote the crappy 1996 thriller Jack Frost.
While Cooneys previous output has not been spectacular (probably his best-known work so far was 1997s snowman-gone-wrong thriller Jack Frost), this script is deceptively clever, revealing its depth only after masquerading as a run-of-the-mill slasher story for the first couple of reels with only Mangolds clever pacing and mixed-up timeline to distinguish it.
The screen treatment of the classic Marvel superhero, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Jack Frost, Simon Birch), ranks up there with Batman and X-Men for its melancholy, dark wit, meticulous eye for detail, baroque mise-en-scène, and crackling energy.
I blame writer/director Mark Steven Johnson, responsible for the terrifying Jack Frost , the schmaltzy Simon Birch , and now this.
Screenwriter and director, Mark Steven Johnson (Simon Birch, Jack Frost, Grumpy Old Men), apparently had no idea that he was making a film based on a comic book, and instead thought he was making the official sequel to The Matrix, or, at the very least, a 90 minute heavy metal video.
His 1998 directorial debut, Simon Birch , and his screenwriting credits, Grumpy Old Men and the astoundingly bad Jack Frost , hardly seemed on a par with an action adventure feature like this.