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The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller, directed by John Maybury partly based on the Jack London novel, The Star Rover. 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.
r miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from amnesia.
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I was 27 years old the first time I died. I remember there was white everywhere. There was war and I felt alive, but really I was dead.
The real events that have happened to me have been fucked up, not my mind!
For me... that is a really difficult question Dr. Laurenson, because the world around me is shrinking... and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are comin' to see me today, and they're not bringing flowers which... just makes it real difficult to get organized.
Terror has a new name.
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The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller, directed by John Maybury partly based on the Jack London novel, The Star Rover. 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 has a better life. The screen fades to white.
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Development
- The Jacket shares its title, and the idea of a person experiencing extra-corporeal time-travel 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.". (The true story is that of Ed Morrell, who told London about San Quentin prison's inhumane use of tight straitjackets).
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.
The Jacket garnered generally poor reviews on release; the film has a 44% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 44% average critic rating on the aggregate reviews site Metacritic.
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