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Jack's Back: Cast, Release & Reception

Jack's Back is a 1988 American mystery thriller film written and directed by Rowdy Herrington in his directorial debut. It stars James Spader in dual roles, Cynthia Gibb, Jim Haynie, Robert Picardo, Rod Loomis, and Rex Ryon. It follows a serial killer who celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th anniversary by committing similar murders.

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Jack's Back topic overview

The analysis highlights Cast, Release and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around Jack's Back.

Related topics: 38
Source areas: 6
Connected nodes: 44
Extracted relationships: 43
Concept neighborhoods: 20
Bridge connections: 44

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 12 topics

Cast · 8 topics

Release · 7 topics

Reception · 6 topics

Plot · 3 topics

Production · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

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Budget: $1.5 million
Cinematography: Shelly Johnson
Country: United States
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington
Distributed by: Palisades Entertainment
Edited by: Harry B. Miller III

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Overview

Release

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Jack's Back connects Entity context

The extracted context around Jack's Back shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Jack's Back → But, Ebert, Harrington, It's, James Spader's, On, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Spader Another extracted example is Jack's Back → However, Originally, Paul Saax, Peter Gabriel, Red Harvest, Red Rain, Rowdy Herrington, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Jack's Back

Top relations

related to Critical response · 9

Jack's Back → But, Ebert, Harrington, It's, James Spader's, On, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Spader

related to Production · 8

Jack's Back → However, Originally, Paul Saax, Peter Gabriel, Red Harvest, Red Rain, Rowdy Herrington, The

related to Theatrical · 7

Jack's Back → Chicago, June, Los Angeles, May, New York City, Southern California, The

Produced by · 2

Jack's Back → Cassian Elwes, Tim Moore

Starring · 2

Jack's Back → Cynthia Gibb, James Spader

is a · 2

Jack's Back → 1988 American mystery thriller film written and directed by Rowdy Herrington in his directorial debut, lighting

Budget · 1

Jack's Back → $1.5 million

Cinematography · 1

Jack's Back → Shelly Johnson

Country · 1

Jack's Back → United States

Directed by · 1

Jack's Back → Rowdy Herrington

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film john pendler release jack's back killer james rick jack 1988 rowdy herrington spader theatrical scene dr tannerson john's police

Jack's Back relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 43 structured relationships around Jack's Back. Examples in this analysis include Jack's Back → Budget → $1.5 million and Jack's Back → Cinematography → Shelly Johnson. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Jack's Back	Budget	$1.5 million	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Cinematography	Shelly Johnson	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Country	United States	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Directed by	Rowdy Herrington	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Distributed by	Palisades Entertainment	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Edited by	Harry B. Miller III	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Language	English	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Music by	Danny Di Paola	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Produced by	Tim Moore	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Produced by	Cassian Elwes	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Production company	Palisades Entertainment	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Release date	May 6, 1988 (1988-05-06)	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Running time	97 minutes	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Starring	James Spader	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Starring	Cynthia Gibb	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	Written by	Rowdy Herrington	1.00	infobox
Jack's Back	is a	1988 American mystery thriller film written and directed by Rowdy Herrington in his directorial debut	0.90	text
Jack's Back	is a	lighting	0.90	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Jack's Back bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Jack's, Plot and Herrington. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Jack's Back, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Jack's Back with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Jack's Back — Overview · splits 32 ⟂ 13

Jack's Back — Cast · splits 36 ⟂ 9

Jack's Back — Release · splits 37 ⟂ 8

Jack's Back — Reception · splits 38 ⟂ 7

Jack's Back — Plot · splits 41 ⟂ 4

Jack's Back — Production · splits 42 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Jack's Back

Nodes45

Edges44

Triples43

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.044444

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Jack's Back to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Cast, Release & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Jack's Back · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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