10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

3. The Eponymous Character Hasn't Got A Whole Lot Of Time Left To Live (Jack)

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Jack is a movie starring Robin Williams directed by Francis Ford Coppola. I'm mentioning that because it's so weird that he was behind the camera for this one. Anyway, Jack's problem is a rare one: although he's actually in elementary school, he appears to physically resemble that of a middle-aged man (and not an attractive one, at that).

The entire movie is devoted to Jack's search for acceptance, because most of the kids at his school are mean jerks and - for some reason - find his presence to be something that super annoys them. Eventually he wins them all over, though, and ol' Jack is officially made "one of the gang."

But Wait... The disease that Jack has in this movie best-resembles something called "progeria," which, for those who are sadly born with it, usually means they won't live further than their mid-teens. Which means that poor Jack isn't likely to ever make it through college, despite the fact that all the kids now think he's a swell guy. R.I.P., little buddy.

 
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