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Jack Black
Born 28 Aug 1969, in Hermosa Beach, California
Wise words: "You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."
Jack Black is one half of the musical duo 'Tenacious D'. The word Tenacious D deriving from a commentator's phrase in a sports game, meaning 'Tenacious Defense'
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Jack Black - news / articles
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Black invited son's school to movie screening -
24 May 2011
-Actor Jack Black became the coolest dad in town after inviting his child's entire school to a screening of his new movie Kung Fu Panda 2.-The funnyman, who has two boys - Tommy, three, and Sammy, four - treated his eldest son's lucky schoolmates to a private showin
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Black keeps fame hidden from his children -
21 December 2010
-Funnyman Jack Black refuses to turn his film premieres into family affairs - because his two young sons have no idea they have a famous father.-
-The School of Rock star admits he's yet to tell four-year-old Sammy and Thomas, two, exactly what he does for a living
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Jack Black's pants-down publicity prank wows co-star -
23 June 2009
-Jack Black's Year One co-star Michael Cera was impressed by the funnyman's daring antics during a guided tour through New York's recent Puerto Rican Day parade.-
-The two stars had to walk a block to a recording studio when the parade left them stranded in their ca
Jack Black - what members say
review by from London
Good adaptation..........good soundtrack 17 May 2004
review by A customer from London, UK
Good concept, mediocre execution 28 May 2004
review by from Truth Or Consequence, Scotland
More than adequate if unmemorable family pleasing comedy. 17 March 2004
Jack Black - filmography
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The Muppets - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis, The Muppets
Director: James Bobin
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Watch now: Unavailable
Jim Henson's Muppets return in this Disney comedy starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel. When tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) plans to uproot the Muppet Theater to drill for oil, Muppet Walter (voice of Peter Linz), teams up with his brother, Gary (Segel) and Gary's girlfriend, Mary (Adams), to ..read more »
 
70%
from 4,418 members
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The Big Year
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Jack Black, Anthony Anderson
Director: David Frankel
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Comedy starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson as three men in different stages of life competing to become champion birdwatchers. Stu (Martin) is a successful business executive on the brink of retirement. Brad (Black), the youngest of the three, works as a computer programmer but lacks ..read more »
61%
from 2,806 members
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The Big Year - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Jack Black, Anthony Anderson
Director: David Frankel
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Comedy starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson as three men in different stages of life competing to become champion birdwatchers. Stu (Martin) is a successful business executive on the brink of retirement. Brad (Black), the youngest of the three, works as a computer programmer but lacks ..read more »
61%
from 30 members
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The Muppets
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt
Director: James Bobin
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Muppet domination continues with a hilarious new movie from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel, Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role, Junebug, 2005, Doubt, 2008, The Fighter, 2010) and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper (Best Performance By An Actor In A ..read more »
72%
from 10,280 members
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Kung Fu Panda 2 - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black, Seth Rogen
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Animated adventure sequel featuring the voice talents of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Gary Oldman and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now a kung fu master, giant panda Po (Black) spends his days working alongside Master Shifu (Hoffman) and The Furious Five - ..read more »
73%
from 6,750 members
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Year One - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Gabriel Sunday
Director: Harold Ramis
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Harold Ramis directs this Judd Apatow-produced comedy set in a twisted version of the Biblical era. Jack Black and Michael Cera star as Zed and Oh, two lazy hunter-gatherers who set off on an epic journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village.
49%
from 4,355 members
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Year One
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Gabriel Sunday
Director: Harold Ramis
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Harold Ramis directs this Judd Apatow-produced comedy set in a twisted version of the Biblical era. Jack Black and Michael Cera star as Zed and Oh, two lazy hunter-gatherers who set off on an epic journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village.
50%
from 24,860 members
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Be Kind Rewind
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Quinton Aaron, Dennis Albanese, Jack Black
Director: Michel Gondry
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A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and ..read more »
56%
from 38,674 members
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Tropic Thunder
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Trieu Tran
Director: Ben Stiller
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Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the ..read more »
57%
from 73,426 members
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Margot at the Wedding
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell, Nicole Kidman
Director: Noah Baumbach
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Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
47%
from 9,793 members
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Tropic Thunder - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Ben Stiller
Director: Ben Stiller
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Ben Stiller writes, directs and stars in this film-within-a-film action comedy. During the filming of a big-budget Vietnam epic, the self-absorbed stars signed up to the project behave unreasonably, resulting in a four million dollar explosion going off with no cameras shooting - and rendering the ..read more »
58%
from 14,008 members
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Be Kind Rewind - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Danny Glover, Jack Black, Paul Dinello
Director: Michel Gondry
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Feelgood comedy-of-errors starring Jack Black as a man who accidentally erases all the videos in his friend's store, then has to re-make them to keep the business going. Junkyard worker Jerry (Black) thinks the power plant directly opposite is threatening his health. Taking matters into his own ..read more »
54%
from 6,562 members
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The Holiday - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Romantic comedy starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black. Iris (Winslet) is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda (Diaz) realises the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find ..read more »
73%
from 400 members
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Nacho Libre
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Black, Peter Stormare, Ana Dela Reguera
Director: Jared Hess
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Comedy starring Jack Black. Nacho (Black) is a man without skills. After being raised in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery's cook, but doesn't seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he feeds, but his food is terrible. He realises he must hatch a plan to make ..read more »
53%
from 31,300 members
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Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Black, Meat Loaf, Ben Stiller
Director: Liam Lynch
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Comedy starring Jack Black (School of Rock, King Kong) in his other capacity as one half of hard-rockin spoof band, Tenacious D. This is the story of how the band Tenacious D came into being; Jack Black, a green Midwestern newcomer to California, comes across Kyle Gass playing guitar on the beach ..read more »
61%
from 25,017 members
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Nacho Libre - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Jack Black, Peter Stormare, Ana Dela Reguera
Director: Jared Hess
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Comedy starring Jack Black. Nacho (Black) is a man without skills. After being raised in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery's cook, but doesn't seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he feeds, but his food is terrible. He realises he must hatch a plan to make ..read more »
51%
from 2,368 members
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King Kong - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Jack Black, Andy Serkis, Kyle Chandler
Director: Peter Jackson
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Epic remake of the adventure classic from acclaimed director Peter Jackson. In Depression-era New York, unscrupulous filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) is desperate to find a leading lady for his new picture. After a chance encounter, naive actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) takes the role, and ..read more »
68%
from 1,874 member
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King Kong
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jack Black, Andy Serkis, Kyle Chandler
Director: Peter Jackson
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Epic remake of the adventure classic from acclaimed director Peter Jackson. In Depression-era New York, unscrupulous filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) is desperate to find a leading lady for his new picture. After a chance encounter, naive actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) takes the role, and ..read more »
63%
from 87,376 members
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Envy
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Sam Lerner
Director: Barry Levinson
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Goofball comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black as Tim Dingman and Nick Vanderpark: best friends, next-door neighbours and co-workers at a sandpaper factory. However, when Nick (Black) comes up with a seemingly hare-brained get-rich-quick idea for a cleaning product, 'Vapoorizer', that makes ..read more »
46%
from 15,448 members
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School of Rock
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Jack Black, Veronica Afflerbach
Director: Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater's film about a teacher (?) inspiring his pupils. To Dewey Finn (Jack Black) music is his life and that includes playing lead guitar in a bar band, who manage to get gigs here and there and aim to win a regional battle-of-the-bands competition. The only thing standing in their way ..read more »
66%
from 57,099 members
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Ice Age - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Denis Leary, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo
Director: Chris Wedge
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At the dawn of the great ice age, a group of three animals embark upon an epic journey. Sid the sloth, Manfred the mammal, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger team up to help return a human baby to its father, and must risk life and limb as they traverse boiling lava pits and travel through dangerous ..read more »
75%
from 2,767 members
Currently unavailable
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Orange County
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jack Black, Jane Adams, John Lithgow
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Teen comedy starring Tom Hanks's son Colin Hanks as Shaun, a high school kid desperate to leave behind his mind-numbing life in Southern California, land of surf dudes and affluent ranch-dwelling lifestyles. He has set his heart on studying creative writing at Stanford with acclaimed author Martin ..read more »
60%
from 4,832 members
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Ice Age
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Diedr, Jac, Tar
Director: Chris Wedge
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Set against the onslaught of the ice age -- and a world filled with wonder and danger -- the story revolves around three unforgettable characters: a wooly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, and a sloth, who unite to return a human baby to his tribe.
72%
from 41,228 members
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Shallow Hal - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
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Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this Farrelly brothers comedy. Hal Larson (Black) is a typical Joe Blow when it comes to his aspirations for a date - he likes women who are magazine beautiful and doesn't care about personality. He keeps an eye out for prospective dates while at the bar with ..read more »
60%
from 3 members
Due for release on 26th July 2013
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Shallow Hal
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
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Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this Farrelly brothers comedy. Hal Larson (Black) is a typical Joe Blow when it comes to his aspirations for a date - he likes women who are magazine beautiful and doesn't care about personality. He keeps an eye out for prospective dates while at the bar with ..read more »
62%
from 19,972 members
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Evil Woman
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Steve Zahn
Director: Dennis Dugan
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When Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) meets psychologist Judith Fessbeggler (Amanda Peet) they quickly fall in love and soon begin talking of marriage. However, when Judith breaks up Darren's Neil Diamond covers band, his bandmates J.D. (Jack Black) and Wayne (Steve Zahn) realise that she is evil and ..read more »
58%
from 2,489 members
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High Fidelity
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Jack Black, Sara Gilbert
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
John Cusack stars in and co-scripts this adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel about failed romance and pop music obsession, relocated from North London to Chicago. DJ-turned-record shop owner Rob Gordon (Cusack) undergoes a major crisis when his long-term girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle) walks out on ..read more »
70%
from 22,967 members
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Jesus' Son
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jack Black, Samantha Morton, Billy Crudup
Director: Alison Maclean
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Iowa, 1971. Laid-back stoner FH (Billy Crudup) meets Michelle (Samantha Morton), and the two fall in love, get involved in heroin, then begin stealing to keep up their habit. When Michelle becomes pregnant they both decide to enter re-hab, but FH finds it hard to keep his end of the bargain.
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from 1,978 member
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Bongwater
(1997)
Starring: Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Amy Locane
Director: Richard Sears
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David is an aspiring artist and a pot dealer, and he falls in love with constantly smoking Serena. Serena gets jealous and goes off to New York with heroin-addicted Tommy, and David wants her back.
67%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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King Kong Production Diaries
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts
Director: Peter Jackson
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Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Peter Jackson's epic new version of 'King Kong' (2005). Jackson himself takes fans through the gruelling production process and the months of work that went into the making of his film, from the construction of epic sets, to the previsualisation ..read more »
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from 217 members
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...t to their adaptation, and with such fine base material, they cold hardly fail. Jack Black is very entertaining. Overall thoroughly recommended.
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