Jack Be Nimble is a 1993 New Zealand gothic horror film directed by Garth Maxwell, who later described it as "a stylised supernatural tale".
It includes one of the final movie appearances of the legendary British/New Zealand actor and musician Bruno Lawrence.
Jack (Arquette) decides to put an end to the abuse he has received from his adoptive parents, and runs away to find his long lost sister, Dora (Smuts-Kennedy).
[citation needed] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "the film cuts back and forth between scenes of their childhood and adolescence, it evokes their misery and isolation with a feverish intensity that recalls scenes from Hitchcock and De Palma".
[1] Kim Newman of Empire Online said that Jack be Nimble was, "Not a film likely to please everyone, but strong stuff nonetheless".