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  1. Roger Ebert November 02, 1990. Tweet. Now streaming on: Rent. Buy. Rent. Ads. Subs. Powered by JustWatch. This movie left me reeling with turmoil and confusion, with feelings of sadness and despair. Those are the notes it strives for. "Jacob's Ladder" enters into the hallucinations of a desperate mind, and lives there.

  2. 72% Tomatometer 69 Reviews 84% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by ...

    • (69)
    • Adrian Lyne
    • R
    • Tim Robbins
  3. Jacob's Ladder is an emotionally powerful film as well. Thanks to its likable main character (lovingly played by Tim Robbins) this film runs from emotions of utter terror; as our hero inexplicably sees demons, to moving sadness; as Jacob recalls his deceased young son.

  4. The site's consensus reads: "Even with its disorienting leaps of logic and structure, Jacob's Ladder is an engrossing, nerve-shattering experience". [24] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [25]

  5. Nov 2, 1990 · Jacob's Ladder: Directed by Adrian Lyne. With Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven. Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

    • (118K)
    • Drama, Horror, Mystery
    • Adrian Lyne
    • 1990-11-02
  6. Nov 2, 1990 · "Jacob's Ladder" is a slick, riveting, viscerally scary film about what in other hands would be a decidedly unsalable subject, namely death. Clever as he is, Mr. Lyne knows better than to present ...

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  8. Aug 15, 2021 · At the start of the 90s, JACOB’S LADDER foreshadows a much darker period in American history with U.S troops once again involved in conflict on foreign soil, this time in the form of the first Gulf War.

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