The Jacket (2005)

Coming Out at 4 March 2005 in theaters.

Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

The Jacket is psychological thriller/horror film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the Jack London novel of the same name. Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco. The original music score is composed by Brian Eno with Roger Eno and the cinematography is by Peter Deming.

The narrative is a time slip fantasy in which an Iraqi war veteran who suffered a death or near-death experience while on active service returns to the United States where he is blamed for the death of a policeman, and incarcerated in a hospital for the criminally insane. Subject to experimental treatments there, which involve him being shut inside a morgue casket while tied in a straitjacket, he eventually learns to travel through time and is able to offer help to various people.

After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie, and her alcoholic mother in despair beside their broken-down truck. Starks and Jackie quickly form a certain affinity; she asks him to give her his dogtags and he does so. He gets the truck started for them and continues on his way. Shortly after, a man driving along the same highway gives Jack a ride and they get pulled over by a policeman.

Director: John Maybury

Writers: Tom Bleecker, Marc Rocco, Massy Tadjedin

Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daniel Craig, Brad Renfro

Cast:

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
Paul Birchard	…	Doctor
Nigel Whitmey	…	Lieutenant
Ian Porter	…	Major
Anthony Edridge	…	Dr. Morgan
Kerry Shale	…	Prosecutor
Angus MacInnes	…	Judge
Richard Durden	…	Dr. Hale
Tristan Gemmill	…	Officer Nash
Colin Stinton	…	Jury Foreman
Tara Summers	…	Nurse Nina
Angelo Andreou	…	Babak / Iraqi Boy
Teresa Gallagher	…	Nurse Sally
Anne Kidd	…	State Representative
Charneh Demir	…	Jamille / Iranian Mother
Frances Brady-Stewart	…	Woman with Dog
Lolly Susi	…	Nurse
Garrick Hagon	…	Defense Lawyer
Fish	…	Jimmy Fleischer
Alan Marsh	…	Extra
Eunice Olumide	…	Military Junior
Scott Peden	…	Wounded US Marine
Nik Weir	…	Patient