Jack (Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart)

Jack is the titular main protagonist of the 2013 French indie film Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart.
He is dubbed by Mathias Malzieu
== Biography ==
When he is born on the coldest day of winter, Jack's heart remains frozen. To save his life, a midwife named Madelaine replaces his heart with a clock. Abandoned by his mother, Jack is brought up by Madeleine, who loves him and considers him her real son. 
On his 10th birthday, Jack goes to town for the first time with Madelaine, but before that, Madelaine reminds him of the three rules to follow so that his heart clock doesn't break: do not touch his needles, control his anger and the third most important rule of all, never fall in love. They go to town, and Jack meets a little singer with glasses, with whom he instantly falls in love. As he and this young girl are about to kiss, Jack's heart overheats and he passes out. Madelaine takes him home and berates him for breaking the Third Law, and because almost dying. She also tells him that if she saved him it is also because he is the child she never had.
Anna and Luna, Madelaine's other adopted children, come to visit Jack asking him how their day in town went. Jack says he met a little bespectacled singer, whom Anna and Luna suspect he fell in love with. Jack notices that Luna is wearing the same dress as the little singer had. He asks Luna where she found this dress, she replies that it's a uniform she had to wear to school.
Jack then asks Madeleine to enroll him in school (hiding that his goal is to find the little singer with glasses). Once at school, Jack finds no trace of the little singer, however, he meets another boy named Joe, who tells him that this little singer is called "Miss Acacia" and that she just left school to return to Andalusia. He also threatens him, telling him that if he talks about Miss Acacia again, he will hit him. Unfortunately, things aren't going to get better for Jack as Joe, Jealous, will begin with his gang to harass Jack for four years. On his 14th birthday, Jack picks up a birthday card signed "Miss Acacia" that Joe dropped on the floor. Joe orders Jack to return his card, but Jack refuses, claiming that it is his. Joe tries to take it back from her, but they rip it without intentionally. Enraged, Joe grabs Jack by the neck and lifts him up, causing the two teenagers to fight. Joe tackles Jack against a post, trying to strangle him and force his clock to open. Suddenly, Jack's cuckoo clock goes off and accidentally pierces Joe's eye. Jack runs away from school and runs home. Madeleine, after learning what happened, helps Jack escape as the authorities pursue him. Heartbroken, Jack hugs Madeleine one last time and leaves with Arthur, Anna, and Luna.
While he is on a train, he falls on a man (Jack the Ripper), who chases him through the train. The man stalks Jack but is repulsed by a man named George Meliès, who arrived just at the right time. George Meliès meets Jack and invites him home to examine his heart clock. Jack explains to George Meliès that he has met a singer with glasses and that she is in Granada in Andalusia. George Meliès agrees to travel with Jack across Europe to Andalusia to find Miss Acacia. They travel together across Europe and finally arrive in Andalusia, where they discover a funny amusement park. Jack finally finds Miss Acacia, he visits her in his dressing room to offer her a bouquet of glasses. Jack accepts a "scarer" job on a ghost train. The next day, Jack and Miss Acacia meet in the ghost train, Jack does not succeed in frightening the public, except Miss Acacia. The two dance together in the ghost train, Miss Acacia tells Jack that she feels like she knows him, unfortunately, she also tells him that she is in love with someone else, to Jack’s great disappointment. 
Despite this, they meet at the cinema to attend George Meliès' film entitled "Romeo and Juliet". Jack believes that Acacia is in love with Joe, and tells Acacia that he was the victim of harassment through her fault. Acacia is confused, telling Jack that he must be wrong, that the one she is in love with would never have hurt a fly. She then talks about when she met her soul mate, and Jack discovers that she is actually talking about him. Unfortunately, He doesn't know how to tell her, but George Meliès has an idea. Jack arranges to meet Acacia at the cinema and when she arrives, Him, George Meliès and the two-headed woman giving her a puppet show retracing the day when Jack and Acacia met and how he crossed Andalusia to find her, making Acacia cry with emotion. Jack steps out of the curtain and hands the piece of fabric from the Acacia's dress that he had accidentally tore when they first met, making her faint.
Jack takes her back to her dressing room. Once awake, Jack declares his feelings to Acacia and shows her how to wind her clock. This reveals that she had to leave Andalusia because she and her parents who were living illegally in Scotland were denounced the very day of her meeting with Jack. As they are about to kiss, they are interrupted by the ghost train owner, who was looking for Jack, and tells Acacia that she has to be on stage soon. He offers Acacia to leave together after her concert, and she accepts.
Jack quits his job and leaves to attend the Acacia concert, he also thanks George Meliès for his help. Unfortunately, things will get tough when a car arrives in the amusement park, which is actually Joe, now one-eye with an eye patch. Seeking revenge on Jack for her pierced eye, he goes to tell Acacia that Jack poked his eye out in a fit of anger, and explains to her the three rules of his heart clock to make her leave him. Acacia confronts Jack and asks him to explain himself, he replies that he did indeed gouge out Joe's eye, but that it was an accident. Acacia blames Jack for lying to her and that she could have killed him letting him fall in love with her. As the stress mounts, Jack desperately tries to justify himself, but Miss Acacia won't listen, angering Jack as he gets hit by lightning, unwittingly scaring Acacia. While his heart-clock is heating up, he sees Joe again, this one explains to him what happened to him since he lost his eye, and he challenges Jack to a duel. At the end of his nerves, Jack jumps on Joe in rage and tries to hit him, but Joe knocks him down, breaking a hand of his clock. Acacia begs them to stop, and she decides to leave with Joe upon realizing Jack's instability. Heartbroken, Jack rips off part of his clock and collapses to the ground. He returns to George Meliès and begs him to fix it, George Meliès tries to comfort him by telling him that he just needs time, but Jack reveals that he has no more time because he has given his key to Acacia who left with Joe. George Meliès helps Jack to get into a car to return to Scotland, he wants to accompany Jack but this last refuse, saying he knew the risks and that he must assume them alone. Back in Scotland, he manages to get home, and is greeted by Anna and Luna as he collapses to the ground a second time. As he wakes up in his bed, Jack asks Anna and Luna where Madelaine is , and they tell him  that the day he left, Madelaine was arrested, thrown in jail, and died there of heartbreak. Devastated, he goes to Madeleine's grave, and he collapses there a third time, dying. As Miss Acacia came back for Jack, to fix and reassemble his broken clock when she realized she had her key, Jack throws the key away, telling her "that she just saved him" and the two finally kiss. From then, on time stops all but Jack who slowly moves away from Miss Acacia and begins to climb the snowflakes to go up to the heaven.
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File:Jack Scarer.png|Jack in his scarer costume
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