And his body is getting older faster with each passing day. That never will be possible, and his antics in trying to fit in are the source of the heartiest laughs of the film. They're reluctant because of the many possibilities Jack will be hurt in the outside world. Finally, he starts out his academic career in the fifth grade. And to know Jack is to love him.
Viewers can expect to feel the same way.
Williams is impeccable in his gangly portrayal of a youngster caught in hyper-puberty. A lumbering Jack, he moves with his arms akimbo, his body hurtling in one direction then another, his mind moving just as fast. Jack is learning, adapting each day. Yet, as director Coppola uses fast-moving clouds to remind us, his clock is gaining time with each passing minute. As most everyone feared, the worst happens during Jack's school days.