Every Francis Ford Coppola Movie Ranked Worst To Best

23. Jack (1996)

After Jack was released to viciously negative reviews in 1996, Coppola went on record to say he thought the film was both "sweet and amusing." Watching it all this time later, though, it makes you wonder how the director of The Godfather was roped into making a painfully distasteful comedy about a 10-year-old (Robin Williams) who ages faster than other kids.

Jack is basically like Big, only it somehow features even less tact and disturbing character interactions, particularly when it comes to the women (Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher) who move in and out of his life with bizarre innuendoes and inappropriate lingering.

Try as he might, Williams' usual levels of charm are woefully miscast here, and Coppola's hope of creating a "sweet and amusing" film about childhood is simply dead on arrival.