As Good As It Gets

Absolutely Brilliant!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I was charmed by the short, Jorge, taped it and saw it many times. I was teaching film, and used it in class to exemplify a well-made, comic and moving short film. Clicking around on digital TV, I was happy to find myself watching the same delightful, bewildered man on his further adventures.I liked Jump Tomorrow enormously, found it touching and laugh-out-loud funny. Tunde Adepimbe has charisma even when he's struck dumb. All the characters are warm and natural, and the script allows for an impromptu feel, even when it's heading toward a well-structured conclusion. A graceful good-hearted road movie. Thank heaven for independent films. I look forward to Joel Hopkins' future work with great anticipation!

At the risk of sounding like an old grouch, I found Jump Tomorrow to be an incredibly predictable and lightweight rom com. Director Joel Hopkins has a decent eye (witness the early scenes at the loft party), but his screenplay is extremely undernourished and suffers from indie film disease. Yes, it's another film where a group of wacky fish out of water eat, dance, fall in love, and overcome adversity together, all to another fairly generic soundtrack of alterna rock (plus John Lennon's Instant Karma). The film even has the temerity to rip off the big scene from Francois Ozon's Water Drops On Burning Rocks. It's all quite likable, but comfortably unambitious.

This is a little nugget of a film pretty much overlooked by the world. It's a very simple film but does a rare thing these days - appeal to the heart with its honesty and sincerity. It's very well written, amusing, entertaining and in the end you really care about the characters.Warm and life affirming.

"Jump Tomorrow", writer/director Joel Hopkins' first full-length movie, is a delightfully sweet movie about a Nigerian named George, living in the U.S., who is getting married in Niagara Falls in 3 days. All he has to do is pick up his bride from the airport and fall in love with her... it's an arranged marriage and he hasn't seen his bride since they were children. He misses her at the airport and hits the road to meet her at Niagara Falls, which sets off a series of hilarious adventures involving a suicidal Frenchman named Gerard and a gorgeous, vivacious Spanish woman named Alicia, whom George immediately falls in love with.The movie title is inspired by George talking Gerard off a ledge by inviting him to do something and telling him "You can always jump tomorrow". Tunde Adebimpe (George) is a newcomer to movies, but the other actors are fairly well-known (at least internationally). Don't miss this movie... it was my favorite at the Dallas Film Festival. Everything, right down to the music, is an absolute delight.