Misery (film)
1990
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Nov 2, 1990 · "Jacob's Ladder" enters into the hallucinations of a desperate mind, and lives there. It evokes a paranoid-schizophrenic state as effectively as any film I have ever seen.
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 hallucinations and flashbacks,...
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Aug 23, 2019 · Lyne’s best film emerged from a country still damaged by Vietnam and weaved the distrust engendered by the veteran experience into a Kafka-esque vision of horror. The remake has some scary faces and a tacked-on commentary about PTSD and government intervention that feels cheap and unearned.
There is Jacob's Ladder, the gateway by which angels pass from heaven to earth and back. And there is the welcome presence of Louis, who quotes Meister Eckhart, the 14th-century Christian mystic and philosopher. In Jacob's most crucial meeting with Louis, he hears Eckhart's decisive wisdom.
Jacob's Ladder Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh. Manages to deliver nightmarish imagery, psychological torment, and...
Aug 20, 2019 · We learn that Isaac is alive, living in a subterranean camp for damaged vets; Jacob’s therapist is suspiciously unfazed by this news, before rushing off to “a meeting” he’s late for.
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.
