Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. The children don't know what to make of Jack, but with the help of his fifth-grade teacher, he makes an effort to win them over.

• DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
• Release9 August 1996
• Genre
  Comedy / Family
• Duration1h 53m
• Budget$45,000,000
• Revenue$58,620,973
• Rate
  

  6.293
  1283 reviews
• Productions

  Hollywood Pictures, Great Oaks Entertainment, American Zoetrope