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Jump In!

2007 television film directed by Paul Hoen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ765579 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jump In! is a 2007 sports comedy-drama film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie, which premiered on January 12, 2007. It was released on Disney Channel UK on April 27, 2007. The film, starring Corbin Bleu and Keke Palmer, revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels (Bleu), who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary (Palmer), asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, Izzy discovers his new love for the sport. At the same time, he discovers true love in Mary and he deals with the conflict between him and his father about boxing. Filming took place in June and July 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Plot

Isadore "Izzy" Daniels is a star boxer in Brooklyn training to win the Golden Gloves, like his widowed father and coach Kenneth. His neighbor, Mary Thomas, is a competitive Double Dutch player on a team called the Joy Jumpers. Despite their constant bickering, the two have mutual crushes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jump In!” as 2007 television film directed by Paul Hoen. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jump, television and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-01-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jump, television and film providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jump In!”, the useful work is to connect “2007 television film directed by Paul Hoen” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q765579. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jump In!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.