Movie Concepts You Won't Believe Exist In Real Life

Jack's Aging Disease

The 1996 movie Jack, starring Robin Williams, was about a boy who aged at four times the normal rate. Consequently, he looked like a forty-something man by the time he was ten years old. Aging disorders do exist, and the best known is progeria, a genetic disorder causing the patient to age up to ten times faster than normal. During childhood, the patient develops all of the physical characteristics of old age like wrinkled skin, baldness, and stooped posture, and also suffer from conditions like osteoporosis and heart disease. Most patients with progeria die in their teens, usually from a stroke or heart attack. Werner syndrome is a similar condition, but the patient doesn’t start showing symptoms until their late teens or early twenties.

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