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Mar 4, 2005 · The Jacket: Directed by John Maybury. With Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
The Jacket is a 2005 American science-fiction psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the 1915 Jack London novel The Star Rover, published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket. [4]
One night, Jack is pumped full of drugs by the staff, placed in a straight jacket and put in a mortuary drawer. Here, he experiences several, rapid-cut flash backs to his past, including the war and the incident with the policeman, but not enough to assist piecing together what happened.
The Jacket has a complex timeline structure that could easily fall apart in lesser hands; Maybury keeps the film easily coherent, and provides just the right amount of clues to the rubber reality aspects at just the right time.
Oct 11, 2021 · The original trailer in high definition of The Jacket directed by John Maybury Writers. Starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley and Daniel Craig. ...more
Mar 4, 2005 · Purchase The Jacket on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Shot in the head during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, American soldier Jack Starks (Academy Award winner Adrien Brody - The Pianist) is pronounced dead by army medics moments before miraculously returning to life.
Mar 3, 2005 · In a gas station, Jack, forlorn and homeless, is befriended by a woman named Jackie ( Keira Knightley, from "Bend It Like Beckham"). She takes him home, cares for him, and here's where we have to get crafty to preserve plot points.
Mar 4, 2005 · Philadelphia Inquirer The Jacket is both a genre movie and a symptom, a gothic treatment of Gulf War syndrome.
Mar 4, 2005 · Amnesiac Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) can't explain why he's been found at the scene of a murder. Ordered to a mental hospital, Jack is subjected to Dr. Thomas Becker's (Kris ...
Mar 4, 2005 · Overview. A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
