Jumpin' Jack Flash (film)

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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Promotional movie poster for the film.
Directed by	Penny Marshall
Produced by	Lawrence Gordon Joel Silver
Written by	David Franzoni J.W. Melville Patricia Irving Chris Thompson
Starring	Whoopi Goldberg Stephen Collins John Wood Carol Kane
Music by	Thomas Newman
Cinematography	Matthew F. Leonetti
Editing by	Mark Goldblatt
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	1986
Running time	100 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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This article is about the movie. For the song, see Jumpin' Jack Flash.

Jumpin' Jack Flash is a 1986 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, John Wood, Annie Potts and Jonathan Pryce. It is the first movie that Penny Marshall directed.

Jumpin' Jack Flash is the story of Terri Dolittle, a fund transferer for First National Bank. In her office she does not fit in. Her desk is full of funny ornaments and is very decorative. She is often told off by her boss Mr. Paige for chatting in an informal manner to other bank computer workers around the globe. One night she is contacted by a man calling himself "Jumpin' Jack Flash", who turns out to be a British spy stuck in a hostile country in eastern Europe. He appeals to Terri to help him return home safely, sending her on wacky and dangerous adventures all over New York.

The film was one of the first to feature online communications as a key part of the plot.

The soundtrack includes two versions of the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash"; one by Aretha Franklin, and the other by The Rolling Stones.