- When Jack, a man with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years, decides to end his life, his family and friends struggle to accept his decision. Jack's best friend documents his three-year quest to die a happy man.
- JACK HAS A PLAN is a documentary about Jack Tuller-a musician, storyteller, and bon vivant. He carries himself through the world like a celebrity, despite having no real claim to fame beyond his affable personality. However, his career as a budding San Francisco Bay Area performance artist and music impresario was forever altered in 1994, when he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given six months to live.
JACK HAS A PLAN tells the story of the following 25 years, as Jack dodges one bullet after the next-but the tumor, an existential threat, persists. How is it even possible for somebody to be terminal for two-and-a-half decades?
Jack turns his brain surgeries into a Left Coast creative documentary-performance project complete with experimental movies, music, diaries, and frequent spontaneous dance moves.
The central narrative of JACK HAS A PLAN begins when, at 55, Jack is finally running out of luck. He literally hears angelic voices and trumpets in his head. Jack can no longer work and loses the wherewithal to manage creative projects. So, he enlists his close friend, filmmaker Bradley Berman, to document his life story-before it's too late and his memory and capacity for language retreat forever.
Inspired by similar personal documentary essays, this film reveals universal truths about mortality, as well as the range of available options for how to approach the inevitable.
JACK HAS A PLAN is a compelling personal movie that explores the nature of love and friendship. It's also an inspiring story about self-determination, creativity, and transcendence.
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