The Jacket
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.
R
HD
Drama, Horror, Mystery
2005
103 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Jacket
- Duration : 103 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Tom Bleecker (story), Marc Rocco (story), Massy Tadjedin (screenplay)
- Directors : John Maybury min
- Imdb : 7.1 (86845 votes)
- Tomatoes : (N/A votes)
- Actors : Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Movie Storyline
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.