Me & Jack
Based on a true story, conceived & written by Forbes Riley Imagine a world without health clubs, fitness equipment or even the jumping jack – well most of these can be attributed to just one man – Jack Lalanne – who started his fitness career in the 30’s when it was not popular, who had the longest running fitness show ever on and who this year he turned 96. Yes, he’s still alive… but only thanks to one man, and this is their story. Nate B was chronologically only 30 years old, but you’d never know it to look at him. 50 pounds overweight and overworked, he carried the burden of being a sexually abused, abandoned child who devoted his entire existence to helping others through foster and hospice care. He’d help to raise dozens of foster children and at his agency was the most request caregiver. That was all about to change. After testifying in court one day that a young boy’s family was not fit to raise him and should be awarded to the state – the family members, later that night, attacked him in a parking lot with a crow bar and left him for dead. [...]