History Film / JackFrost1998

''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton. Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Creator/KellyPreston) and son Charlie (Creator/JosephCross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and borrows his best friend (and the band's keyboardist) Mac [=MacArthur=] (Creator/MarkAddy)'s car to go home and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jack reconciles with his son, but ultimately has to pass on.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Jack is restored to his human form just once so he can say goodbye to his wife and son, before passing on]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Rory Buck is revealed to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and ultimately helps Charlie get Jack to the mountains]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jack reconciles with his som, but ultimately has to pass on.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jack reconciles with his son. But ultimately has to pass on.]]

* JustForFun: "Snow dad is better than no dad."

* RealityEnsues: PlayedForLaughs. When Jack discovers he's become a snowman, he tries to fool himself into believing he's past [[FiveStagesOfGrief all fives stages of grief]], when really, he's only transitioning from Denial to Anger.

* {{Getting Crap Past The Radar}}:
** Jack and Gabby show a rather uncomfortable amount of PDA for a PG kids' movie.
** One scene had the titular snowman receive two snowballs to the chest during a snowball fight. He [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman gropes himself for a second]] before throwing them away.
** And when making a snowman, Jack pretends he misunderstood about where to attach the carrot. This one later comes back to bite him when he becomes the snowman, looks down to find out in his own horror that he has no genitals.
** In the cold mountains, Jack says, "My balls are freezing!"

* LazyBum: Mac [=MacArthur=], Jack's eccentric keyboardist who moves into the Frost's house after Jack's death, spends most of his time on the sleeping on the couch. However Mac's laziness could very likely be mostly out of his own grief for Jack.

''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton. Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and son Charlie (Joseph Cross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and borrows his best friend (and the band's keyboardist) Mac [=MacArthur=] (Creator/MarkAddy)'s car to go home and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.

Under no circumstances is it to be confused with an [[SimilarlyNamedWorks identically-titled]] [[Film/JackFrost1997 film that came out the preceding year]].

''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton. Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and son Charlie (Joseph Cross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and borrows his best friend (and the band's keyboardist) Mac [=MacArthur=] (Creator/MarkAddy)'s car to go home and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins block Jack's view, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.

[[caption-width-right:300:He's the world's [[{{Pun}} coolest]] dad and he's gonna prove it.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Jack Frost is getting a second chance to be the world's [[{{Pun}} coolest]] dad... if he doesn't melt first.]]

* LazyBum: Mac [=MacArthur=], Jack's eccentric keyboardist who moves into the Frosts' house after Jack's death spends most of his time on the sleeping on the couch. However Mac's laziness could very likely be mostly out of his own grief for Jack.

''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton. Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and son Charlie (Joseph Cross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and borrows his best friend (and the band's keyboardist) Mac [=MacArthur=] (Creator/MarkAddy)'s car to go home and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins block to Jack's view, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.

''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton. Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and son Charlie (Joseph Cross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins block to his view, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Jack manages to convince Charlie it's really him as a snowman by calling him "Charlie boy" (which is what Jack used to call him by). Gabby [[CassandraTruth doesn't believe Charlie when she tells her the snowman is Jack]]. [[spoiler:That is until Jack calls her on the phone, nonchalantly asking her to come to the cabin in the mountains, and Gabby recognizes her husband's voice and obliges]].

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Jack manages to convince Charlie it's really him as a snowman by calling him "Charlie boy" (which is what Jack used to call him by).

One year later, the spirit of Jack finds himself reincarnated in a snowman's body after a fatal traffic accident. This is in order to allow father-son bonding that had never quite happened in Jack's's human life.

[[caption-width-right:300:Jack Frost is getting a second chance to be the world's [[{{Pun}} coolest]] dad... as long as he doesn't melt first.]]
''Jack Frost'' is a 1998 family film directed by Troy Miller, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton.

Jack Frost (Keaton) is a workaholic rock singer who's on the road most of the time so he can't spend a lot of time with his wife Gabby (Kelly Preston) and son Charlie (Joseph Cross) and constantly breaks/forgets the promises he made to them. One evening, Jack decides to abandon his gig and spend the holidays with his family. Unfortunately, a bad storm begins block to his view, and due to the faulty windshield wiper, Jack crashes his car and is killed instantly.