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The Jacket
The Jacket
The Jacket Language Budget English $28,500,000
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller, directed by John Maybury partly based on the Jack London novel, The Star Rover.[1] Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco. The original music score is composed by Brian Eno and the cinematography is by Peter Deming.
Plot
After miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from amnesia. Accused of murdering a police officer, he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, and is incarcerated in a mental institution. Starks becomes subject to the experiments of Dr. Thomas Becker, a psychiatrist. Starks is injected with an experimental drug and put into a straitjacket; he is then locked in a morgue drawer. While in this condition, Jack’s mind sends him into the future of late December 2007, where he discovers, amongst other things, that he is destined to die in four days from his first incarceration in the drawer in 1992. While in the future, Starks meets Jackie Price, whom he helped in 1992 returning from Vermont. At first, Jackie does not believe Jack’s story, but on subsequent trips to the drawer (and the future) she helps him learn how he is to die, in the process becoming attached to him. Jackie learns that Jack dies from head trauma, but visiting the mental institution no one there is able or willing to explain how it happened. With his time running out, Jack writes a letter explaining Jackie’s bleak future and gives it to Jackie’s mother (who died by burns when she fell unconscious with a cigarette.) On the return trip to the hospital, Jack slips on the ice and hits his head; bleeding profusely, he convinces the hospital workers to put him in the jacket one last time. Jack returns to 2007, where Jackie’s mother is still alive and she
A promotional poster for The Jacket Directed by Produced by John Maybury George Clooney Peter Guber Steven Soderbergh Massy Tadjedin Adrien Brody Keira Knightley Kris Kristofferson Jennifer Jason Leigh Kelly Lynch Brad Renfro Daniel Craig Brian Eno Peter Deming Emma E. Hickox Warner Independent Pictures March 4, 2005 103 min. United States
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Actor Adrien Brody Keira Knightley Kris Kristofferson Jennifer Jason Leigh Kelly Lynch Brad Renfro Daniel Craig Steven Mackintosh Brendan Coyle Mackenzie Phillips Jason Lewis has a better life. The screen fades to white, and Jackie says "How much time do we have?," the credits start to roll. Role Jack Starks Jackie Price Dr. Thomas Becker Dr. Beth Lorenson Jean Price The Stranger Rudy Mackenzie Dr. Hopkins Damon Nurse Hardling Officer Harrison
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Cast Basis
The Jacket shares its title, and the idea of a person experiencing extra-corporeal timetravel while in an intolerably tight straitjacket, with a 1915 novel by Jack London. The novel was published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket and in the United States of America as The Star Rover. Director Maybury has said that the film is "loosely based on a true story that became a Jack London story."[1]. (The true story is that of Ed Morrell, who told London about San Quentin prison’s inhumane use of tight straitjackets).
average critic rating on the aggregate reviews site Metacritic.[4] [1][2][3][4][5][6] Despite its negative critical reviews, user scores were more positive, with imdb.com scoring it a 7.0 out of 10 based on 29,496 votes as of 13 April 2009.
References
[1] ^ "Full Mental Jacket". The Irish Times Weekly Guide to Entertainment. 2006-09-13. http://www.irishtimes.com/ theticket/articles/2005/0513/ 3559164585TK1305MAYBURY.html. Retrieved on 2006-09-13. . Quotes director Maybury: "’I know you think it is a load of Hollywood nonsense,’ he says amiably, ’but it is in fact loosely based a true story that became a Jack London story.’" [2] http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/ ?id=jacket.htm [3] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ jacket/ [4] http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/ jacket?q=the%20jacket
Release and reception
The Jacket opened on March 4, 2005, and grossed $2,723,682 on opening weekend, with a peak release of 1,331 theaters in the United States. The film went on to gross $6,303,762 domestically, for a total of $14,822,463 worldwide.[2] The Jacket garnered generally poor reviews on release; the film has a 44% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes,[3] and a 44%
External links
• • • • Official site The Jacket at the Internet Movie Database The Jacket at Rotten Tomatoes The Jacket at Allmovie
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