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TITLE Lightning Jack (1994)

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DISABILITY Deaf

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 95

GENRE Western

DIRECTOR Simon Wincer

CAST Paul Hogan

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Beverly D'Angelo

NOTES A silly western which is meant to be a comedy but even

Hogan can't make it very funny. And the film goes nowhere.

Presumably it was thought that Cuba Gooding Jnr. as a black

cowboy who doesn't speak would be funny but it isn't and he

plays the role like Stepin Fetchit. When he and Hogan's

character first meet he writes on a card "Not deaf, not stupid,

just mute".

 


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