Jack and Jill is a 2011 comedy film starring Adam Sandler. Dennis Dugan, who has collaborated with Sandler on most of his films, served as director. It was distributed byColumbia Pictures and released on November 11, 2011.[3]
In the film, Jack Sadelstein is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his "identical" twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Jack and Jill was universally panned by critics and holds a score of 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the negative reception, the film debuted in second place with over $25 million.
Cast
- Adam Sandler as Jack Sadelstein and Jill Sadelstein
- Al Pacino as himself [4]
- Katie Holmes as Erin Sadelstein[4]
- Eugenio Derbez as Felipe
- Tim Meadows as Ted
- Nick Swardson as Todd
- Allen Covert as Joel Farley / Otto
- Valerie Mahaffey as Bitsy Simmons
- Cameo appearances
- Dana Carvey as Crazy Puppeteer[5]
- Regis Philbin as himself
- Shaquille O'Neal as himself
- Johnny Depp as himself
- Drew Carey as himself
- John Farley as Mort the hot dog vendor (uncredited)
- Ron and Richard Harris as themselves
- John Yuan as Asian Twin #1
- Matthew Yuan as Asian Twin #2
- David Spade as Damien Farley / Monica
- Rob Schneider as Alan
- Dennis Dugan as Henry
- Norm MacDonald as Funbucket
- Santiago Segura as Spanish worker
- Simrin Player as Josephina
Jack & Jill received almost universally negative reviews by critics upon release. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 4% of 76 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 2.7 out of 10. The consensus is, "Although it features an inexplicably committed performance from Al Pacino, Jack and Jill is impossible to recommend on any level whatsoever."[6] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 23 based on 26 reviews.[7] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "B" on an A+ to F scale and an "A−" from audiences under age 18.[8]
Despite the poor reviews, the film opened in 3,438 theaters at number two with $25 million behind Immortals, which debuted in the top spot with over $32 million.[8] The film has grossed $40,766,479 in the United States and Canada and $5,700,000 in other territories, for worldwide gross of $46,466,479.[2]
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