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Release Date:
4 March 2005 (USA)
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Tagline:
Terror has a new name. more
Plot:
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor's experiences, and his life is completely affected by them. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Ruffalo, Tadjedin, Husson
(From ioncinema. 30 November 2009, 1:32 AM, PST)
50 Influential Scream Queens: Part 1
(From Fangoria. 27 October 2009, 5:54 AM, PDT)
(From ioncinema. 30 November 2009, 1:32 AM, PST)
50 Influential Scream Queens: Part 1
(From Fangoria. 27 October 2009, 5:54 AM, PDT)
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Trippy Yet Still Intelligent
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Adrien Brody | ... | Jack Starks |
 | Keira Knightley | ... | Jackie Price |
 | Kris Kristofferson | ... | Dr. Thomas Becker |
 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Dr. Beth Lorenson |
 | Kelly Lynch | ... | Jean Price |
 | Brad Renfro | ... | The Stranger |
 | Daniel Craig | ... | Rudy Mackenzie |
 | Steven Mackintosh | ... | Dr. Hopkins |
 | Brendan Coyle | ... | Damon |
| Mackenzie Phillips | ... | Nurse Harding |
 | Laura Marano | ... | Young Jackie |
| Jason Lewis | ... | Officer Harrison |
| Richard Dillane | ... | Captain Medley |
| Jonah Lotan | ... | Intern #1 |
| Angel Coulby | ... | Intern #2 |
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Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity.
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Runtime:
103 min | Turkey:94 min (TV version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
France:-12 |
Germany:12 |
Indonesia:Dewasa |
Taiwan:R-12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Iceland:16 |
Malaysia:18PL (uncut version) |
Malaysia:U (edited version) |
Argentina:16 |
South Korea:15 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Finland:K-15 |
Ireland:15A |
Netherlands:12 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Singapore:NC-16 (cut) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Australia:MA |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva)
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The scenes in the mental hospital were shot in the former Bangour Village Hospital, a disused insane asylum, in West Lothian, Scotland, near Edinburgh. As The Jacket was released, several other film scouts expressed an interest in the hospital building as a location, but the area had already been earmarked for housing development. Since then, the housing development has been scrapped, and Bangour Village Hospital still stands as it did at the time of filming, and continues to attract ghost-hunters as certain of the patient villas are believed to be haunted.
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Continuity: The tape over Jack's mouth changes size and placement.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Jack Starks: [Walking over to Iraqi child who's breathing hard] How's it going little man? You all right?
[Babak pulls out gun. Jack puts his hand up in a stop gesture but Babak shoots Jack in the head. Jack falls to the ground]
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Jack Starks: [Walking over to Iraqi child who's breathing hard] How's it going little man? You all right?
[Babak pulls out gun. Jack puts his hand up in a stop gesture but Babak shoots Jack in the head. Jack falls to the ground]
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Featured in The Look of 'The Jacket': Influences from the Avant-Garde (2005) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Feel This Way
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Is "The Jacket" based on a book?Please explain the ending.
Why didn't Jack prevent his own death?
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First off, this film is not for everyone. It does, however, seem to delineate an emerging and exciting trend in contemporary film making whereby directors are becoming increasingly enamored with these sorts of dark, brooding, almost dreamscape-like and melodramatic thrillers which defy archetypal and conventional narrative formats. Think of the "The Machinist" and work your way backwards to "Vanilla Sky", or even as far back as 1990's "Jacob's Ladder" as one other reviewer accurately suggested.
To this end, "The Jacket" represents the apotheosis of this rising genre, and is both an artistic psychological thriller, as well as what you might call a metaphysical tragedy, and easily envelopes the viewer into its morose and sterile world replete with dreary snow scapes, perpetual grey skies and faces, muted and washed out colours, institutional isolation, and the angst of working class loners. The film's imagery and the pace of the story and script immediately command one's attention from the outset and the film is unrelenting in both its tension and gumption. Because of this, despite the story's meandering timeline and lack of feasible explanations for the protagonist's "visions", the viewer is still to an extent able to believe what they're seeing. Because the film takes itself so seriously, and actually pulls it off, the viewer then buying into the fantasy of the story becomes far more palatable than it does in other misguided attempts at this same sort of risky and artsy storytelling ie: "The Butterfly Effect".
This is an ambitious film which taps into both the romanticism and pain of our dreams and our memories, and how they both act upon us, and cause us to act upon them. It examines what is real versus perceived, the fragility of life, how each persons's life effects others, even passing strangers, and the sovereignty of the self and the mind. The film features outstanding performances from just about everyone on screen, particularly Brody as the hapless and tortured Jack Starks, and Kristofferson as the morally ambiguous and equally tortured Dr. Becker.
Despite the big names on the marquee, however, this, as previously mentioned, is not a cut and dry "popcorn flick" and will leave many people bewildered. It is for these people that the "Butterfly Effect" was made first, and now with them out of the way, the timing for a film of this caliber which deals with these issues properly is appropriate. "The Jacket" is a trippy and entertaining yet still very intelligent film which asks only that you check your preconceptions and logical rectitude at the door. By doing so, you'll find the imagination of this film is fact more real than you might have expected.