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  1. The Jacket
    R2005 · Science fiction · 1h 42m

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  2. 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.

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  3. Synopsis. The film opens with Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) as an active soldier in the Gulf War in 1991. His voice-over tells us he was 27 the first time he died. While on duty, a young boy ambushes him and he is shot in the head. We move forward a year and he is clearly a loner. We see him hitch-hiking along a snowy road.

  4. THE JACKET is a smart thriller, with above-average heft and imagination in the story, the structure, and especially in the striking visuals. Oscar-winner Brody makes Jack capture our loyalty and makes us believe that he could capture the loyalty of the strong but damaged Jackie.

    • Warner Independent
    • John Maybury
  5. Sep 10, 2012 · Massy Tadjedin’s (overly) ambitious, demanding screenplay for ‘The Jacket’ – an extremist, time-travelling, psychological horror, with Adrien Brody’s amnesiac Gulf War vet subjected to ...

  6. Mar 4, 2005 · Synopsis by Mark Deming. A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury.

  7. 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. John Maybury. Director. Massy Tadjedin. Screenplay. Marc Rocco. Story. Tom Bleecker. Story.

  8. Loosely based on the 1915 Jack London novel "The Star Rover," The Jacket stars Adrien Brody as an amnesiac war veteran wrongly accused of murder and put in a hospital for the criminally insane. The story gets the full Altered States (sensory deprivation) and Jacob's Ladder (war vet seeing things that may be real or not) treatment.

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