![]() ![]() Jacks young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Garth Maxwell now directs lots of XENA episodes, but he made this great little New Zealand horror masterpiece several years earlier. Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Garth Maxwell, who previously directed the award-winning gay short Beyond Gravity, made his feature debut with Jack Be Nimble. With Alexis Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry. But his unhappy childhood has already inflicted too much damage, poisoning the siblings' hopes of a joyful reunion with their birth parents and setting the stage for the savage vengeance of Jack's stepsisters. As the disturbed creator of a steam-driven, hypnosis-inducing light-machine, Alexis Arquette proves that his sisters Rosanna and Patricia have no monopoly on the family talent for flakiness, while Sarah Smuts-Kennedy brings a luminous inner strength to the outwardly frail Dora. In director Garth Maxwells 1993 gothic horror, twins Jack and Dora (late American actor Alexis Arquette and Kiwi Sarah Smuts-Kennedy) are separated while. Jack Be Nimble: Directed by Garth Maxwell. Meanwhile, his vengeful sisters are on his trail. A long-dreamed-of reunion in their teens, after Jack's escape and Dora's discovery of hidden psychic powers, cannot match the damaged Jack's idealised memories consumed by desperate, frustrated rage, he lashes out at those closest to him. Jacks young life has been spent with a sadistic family. By contrast, Dora's parents are kind, if stiflingly respectable, although at school she is ridiculed and bullied. Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Addeddate 16:37:08 Identifier jack-be-nimble Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. Trailer for the 1993 horror thriller Jack Be Nimble, directed by Garth Maxwell, starring Alexis Arquette. Jack's sadistic 'father' whips him with barbed wire while his hatchet-faced 'mother' and ghoulish 'sisters' look on. Jack Be Nimble (1993) Trailer Movies Preview. After their father's affairs precipitate their mother's flight into insanity, Jack (Arquette) and Dora (Smuts-Kennedy) endure a painful childhood separation with very different adoptive families. A heady witches' brew of fairy-tale grimness, melodramatic excess and dark supernatural horror, Maxwell's first feature induces disequilibrium and unease. ![]()
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