The Jacket
Overview
John Maybury
John Maybury is an English filmmaker. In 2005 he was listed as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.-Early life:...
that is partly based on the Jack London
Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
novel of the same name, released in the US as The Star Rover
The Star Rover
The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 . It is a story of reincarnation....
. Massy Tadjedin
Massy Tadjedin
Massy Tadjedin is an Iranian-American screenwriter.Tadjedin was born in Tehran and grew up in Orange County, California, and studied English Literature at Harvard....
wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco. The original music score is composed by Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
and the cinematography is by Peter Deming
Peter Deming
Peter Deming A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Deming was born in Racine, Wisconsin.-Filmography:*Hollywood Shuffle - - Director of Photography...
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After miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...
) returns to Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia
Amnesia
Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...
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Quotations
The real events that have happened to me have been fucked up, not my mind!
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.
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.