The Jacket

The Jacket

Infobox_Film
name = The Jacket


caption = A promotional poster for "The Jacket"
director = John Maybury
writer = Massy Tadjedin
starring = Adrien Brody
Keira Knightley
Kris Kristofferson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Kelly Lynch
Brad Renfro
Daniel Craig
producer = George Clooney
Peter Guber
Steven Soderbergh
music = Brian Eno
distributor = Warner Independent Pictures
cinematography = Peter Deming
editing = Emma E. Hickox
released = March 4, 2005
runtime = 103 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $28,500,000
amg_id = A291813
imdb_id = 0366627

"The Jacket" is a 2005 psychological thriller, directed by John Maybury partly based on the Jack London novel, The Star Rover.cite web|title=Full Mental Jacket|url=http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2005/0513/3559164585TK1305MAYBURY.html|publisher=The Irish Times Weekly Guide to Entertainment|date=2006-09-13|accessdate=2006-09-13. Quotes director Maybury: "'I know you think it is a load of Hollywood nonsense,' he says amiably, 'but it is in fact loosely based a true story that became a Jack London story.'"] 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 summary

After miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont suffering from amnesia. He is accused of murdering a police officer, and is incarcerated in a mental institution in the year 1992.

In the ward, Starks becomes subject to the experiments of Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson), 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 the closing week of 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.

imilar stories

* "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."op. cit.] . (The true story is that of Ed Morrell, who told London about San Quentin prison's inhumane use of tight straitjackets).

*The Time Traveler's Wife, about a grown man who meets and falls in love with a woman whom he had met as a child.

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References

External links

* [http://wip.warnerbros.com/thejacket/ Official site]
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