Episode 729: Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Whoopbruary is here! We're dedicating a whole month to the incomparable Whoopi Goldberg, spotlighting a trio of films she made after her powerhouse performance in The Color Purple—plus one extra for good measure. Kicking things off is Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986), the high-energy spy comedy directed by Penny Marshall. Whoopi stars as Terry Doolittle, a quick-witted computer technician who unwittingly stumbles into international espionage when she makes contact with a British spy. With a script originally penned by David H. Franzoni, Whoopi's signature charm is on full display.

Ian Brownell joins this month's co-host, Razzie-nominated writer Kevin Lehane, for a fun discussion of where and how this fits into Whoopi's filmography.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off. The balance of power, the safety of America, and the fate of the free world, are all in the hands of a woman named Whoopi.
0:54.0	Hi! are all in the hands of a woman named Whoopie.
0:54.8	Hi.
1:04.4	You should be happy. The man's not going to press charge.
1:07.8	This man is trying to kill me. Of course he's not going to press charges.
1:10.4	She's discovered a deadly secret.
1:12.7	You don't know anything about this, do you? I don't know about this. She's discovered a deadly secret. You don't know anything about this, do you? I don't know about this.
1:14.9	She's fallen in with a very tough crowd.
1:18.1	Mr. Van Meade.
1:19.2	What do you mean he's dead?
1:20.9	Dead, dead.
1:21.7	And if she can stay alive.
1:23.3	See this face?
1:25.3	It's a face of a woman on the edge.
1:26.9	She just might save someone.
1:28.7	The KGB?
1:31.3	The K. G.B.
	...

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