'You Don't Know Jack', but it might look familiar

You Don't Know Jack is the new HBO movie about Jack Kevorkian. Local characters like Geoffrey Fieger and Jack Lessenberry are in it. And it was filmed here. So, we might not know Jack, but the movie should look familiar.

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It's hard to think of a public figure who has eluded popular understanding more stubbornly than Jack Kevorkian. Now director Barry Levinson and Adam Mazer, who wrote the script for the new HBO movie "You Don't Know Jack," have managed to pin the mercurial Dr. Death on their specimen block and explain why journalists have found the same challenge so difficult.

The film, which premieres Saturday on the cable channel, may not stand as the definitive history of Kevorkian's adventures. But it provides the most plausible portrait to date of the man who made physician-assisted suicide a household phrase, if not a popular option.

Kevorkian's critics have portrayed him as a prima donna who regarded his patients as mere supernumeraries in his operatic crusade to legalize euthanasia. "This is what you do it for, to be able to put your stamp on medical history," the soon-to-be-famous pathologist (mesmerizingly portrayed by Al Pacino) tells his sidekick, Neal Nicol (John Goodman), early in the movie.

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