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Mar 4, 2005 · The Jacket: Directed by John Maybury. With Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
- John Maybury
- 309
- 3 min
Mar 4, 2005 · Amnesiac Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) can't explain why he's been found at the scene of a murder. Ordered to a mental hospital, Jack is subjected to Dr. Thomas Becker's (Kris ...
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- John Maybury
- R
- Adrien Brody
- Who Is Jack Starks, Jackie and Jean?
- Who Actually Killed The Policeman? What Happened on The Highway?
- Who Is Dr Thomas Becker? What Is He Doing to Jack?
- Who Is Dr Beth Lorenson?
- Who Is Rudy Mackenzie?
- Understanding The Time-Travel in The Jacket
- Time Jump-1: 24th December 2007
- Time-Jump 2: 27th December 2007
- Time-Jump 3: 29th December 2007
- Saving Babak
Jack Starks is a Gulf War veteran who happened to get shot in the head and survived. The injury leaves him with pockets of memories missing from his life. He is also diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is dismissed from the force. A year later, in 1992, Jack happens to be walking past a drunk mother, Jean, and her little daughter, Jac...
Jack walks further down and hitches a ride. While the driver seems to be a regular guy, it appears that he was being tailed by a cop and gets pulled over. Just as Jack exits the car, the driver shoots at the cop. A bullet from the police’s gun hits Jack. The driver kills the cop and leaves his gun beside Jack, who is unconscious. The authorities ar...
Dr Becker has been taking it upon himself to conduct illegal treatments on his criminally insane patients to rid them of their need to commit crimes. Dr Becker and his team are perfectly okay to harm or even kill the patient because they consider them scum, even though they have a cerebral condition. In the case of Jack, he’s both innocent and does...
Dr Beth Lorenson is a fellow doctor who is suspicious of the activities that go on in the morgue. She’s a good person and is currently treating her friend’s son, Babak, who suffers from a mental condition that has removed his ability to learn any new skill. She wants to help Jack.
Rudy is a patient who suffered a mental breakdown after his wife left him for another guy. However, he prefers to go around saying that he repeatedly attempted to kill his wife. It appears that Rudy, too, has been put into the morgue drawer and has experienced time jumps, but Dr Lorenson’s suspicion results in Dr Becker having to stop putting Rudy ...
Jack travels from 1992 to 2007. When Jack is in the morgue drawer, he begins to simultaneously exist in the future as well. Typically, in time-travel movies, the person physically leaves at one time and reaches another. In The Jacket, Jack physically exists both in 1992 (in the drawer) and in 2007. However, Jack’s consciousness exists only at one t...
The next time Jack is tossed into the drawer, he gets transported to the future. Jack doesn’t realize the year and isn’t even sure if his experience is real. A young lady who happens to see Jack standing helplessly on Christmas Eve takes pity and gives him shelter for the night at her place. After she sleeps, Jack finds the dog tags he gave Jackie ...
Jack meets Jackie, and this time she believes him because he couldn’t know the little details about that day on the side of the road by rummaging through her stuff. She also looks up more information about Jack’s death and says that Jack’s dead body was found with a wound to the head and that Dr Becker was exposed for the illegal experiments he was...
Jack is strapped into the jacket once again. He and Jackie find Dr Becker and confront him, asking him to confess that he killed Jack in 1992. But Dr Becker denies it. He says that the last time he put Jack in the drawer, Jack came out and listed Dr Beckers previous patients. Jackie asks Dr Becker for the names, and he tells them. Jack smiles, real...
Jack learns from Jackie that Babak was not slow but was suffering from seizures and that Dr Lorenson used electroconvulsive therapy to reset him. He gives this information to Dr Lorenson, who is shocked to hear it. By now, Dr Lorenson finds it hard to ignore the kind of information Jack has been presenting her with, so she goes on to give Babek the...
- John Maybury
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The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go wrong when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by a stranger. The vet is wrongly accused of the killing and lands in an asylum. A disreputable doctor prescribes a course ...
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- Jack Starks; Jackie Price; Dr. Thomas Becker
- R
- 2005
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Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 3 ): 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.
