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Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Release Date: Mar 4, 2005
Running Time: 103 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: Germany
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After recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to his native Vermont suffering from Amnesia. When he is accused of murdering a police officer and committed to a mental institution, a physician, Dr. Becker, puts him on a controversial treatment regimen in which Starks is injected with experimental drugs, confined in a straight-jacket, and locked for extended periods in the body drawer of the basement morgue. In his drugged and disoriented state, Starks’ mind propels him into the future, where he meets Jackie, and discovers that he is destined to die in four days. Together, they search for a way to save him from his fate.
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reviews
PETER TRAVERS -
February 24, 2005
If you want to cook up an out-there mind-teaser and don't know how, rip off a good one: A Clockwork Orange or 12 Monkeys or Memento. Why use crap like The Butterfly Effect or Identity or TV's Touched by an Angel, the shallow wells from which The Jacket draws scant inspiration? As Jack Starks, a Gulf War soldier who loses his memory after a head injury, Adrien Brody suffers in the mode that helped win him an Oscar for The Pianist. Things get worse for Jack back home in Vermont when he is accused…
Auteur director John Maybury (Love Is the Devil), who wanted to treat the film as an experimental avant-garde piece, says it succinctly, ''What interested me about [The Jacket] is that it's kind of genre-less … I hope no one comes up with a label for it because for me, the fact that it slips between the cracks of various genres makes it interesting as an experience.'' While this sounds a tad pretentious, Maybury still accomplishes his mission. One would be hard pressed to find anything formulaic…
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