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The Jacket
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.
2005 · Directed by John Maybury · 103 min · Drama · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
Terror has a new name.
Plot
After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head inflicted by a child soldier, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie, and her alcoholic mother in despair beside their broken-down truck. Starks and Jackie quickly form a bond; she asks him to give her his dog tags, which he does. He gets the truck started and continues on his way. Shortly after, a man driving along the same highway gives Jack a ride and they get pulled over by a policeman.
Soon after, Starks is found lying on the deserted roadside near the dead policeman, with a slug from the policeman's gun in his body and the murder weapon nearby. He testifies that someone else was at the scene, but is not believed because of his amnesia, is found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated in a mental institution.
Starks is placed in the unsympathetic care of Dr. Thomas Becker, a psychiatrist, and his more humane colleague Dr. Beth Lorenson. In December 1992, Starks is forced to undergo an unauthorized treatment designed by Becker: he is injected with experimental drugs, bound in a straitjacket and placed inside a morgue drawer as a form of sensory deprivation. While in this condition, he is able to travel 15 years into the future and stay there for a short time. He meets an older version of Jackie at a roadside diner where she works. She does not recognize him, but takes pity on him and offers him shelter for the night. While in her apartment, Starks comes across his own dog tags and confronts her. Jackie, frightened, tells him that he can't be Jack Starks, as he died on New Year's Day in 1993, and asks him to leave. Subsequently, Starks is transported back to the future on several occasions in the course of his treatment and, after earning Jackie's trust, they try to figure out how to make use of the time-traveling so as to remove Jack from the hospital and save his life.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Massy Tadjedin
- Cinematography: Peter Deming
- Edited by: Emma E. Hickox
- Music: Brian Eno
- Production design: Alan MacDonald
- Produced by: George Clooney, Peter Guber, Steven Soderbergh
Cast
- Adrien Brody as Jack Starks
- Keira Knightley as Jackie Price
- Kris Kristofferson as Dr. Thomas Becker
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dr. Beth Lorenson
- Kelly Lynch as Jean Price
- Brad Renfro as The Stranger
- Daniel Craig as Rudy Mackenzie
- Angel Coulby as Intern #2
- Steven Mackintosh as Dr. Hopkins
- Brendan Coyle as Damon
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Section Eight, Mandalay Pictures, VIP Medienfonds 3, 2929 Productions
- Budget: $29,000,000
- Box office: $21,733,230
- Themes: amnesia, experiment, smoking, psychology, hallucination, time travel, medicine, iraq war veteran, love, psychologist
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