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The Jacket - ''For the Jack London novel published in England under this title, see The Star Rover. Although uncredited, key elements of the movie story may be based on this novel.
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film, directed by John Maybury. It is based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco. Plot summary After miraculously recovering from a bullet-wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (played by 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. Becker, a physician. Starks is injected with an experimental drug and put into a straitjacket; He is then then locked in a morgue drawer. While in this condition, Jack's mind sends him into the future of 2007, where among other things he discovers that he is destined to die in four days time. Tagline: Terror has a new name. Similar stories - The Jacket is essentially a reversal of the time travel theme found in the 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect. Instead of traveling into the past to fix the present, Starks travels into the future to fix the past (or present depending on how you look at it). At first glance, this appears to be a glaring hole in the plot, as Starks was able to travel into the past (he briefly returned to his childhood) and prevent the shooting which led to his wrongful incarceration and eventual death.
- The plot of the 1990 film, Jacob's Ladder has a number of similarities with The Jacket. Protagonists from both films have near-death experiences while serving in the military and both experience what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder. The character of Jacob Singer in Jacob's Ladder is able to glimpse a possible future as seen from purgatory (which Singer erroneously thinks is caused by his exposure to a drug in Vietnam); Singer is also helped by his chiropractor. Compare Singer's role with that of Jack Stark in The Jacket: Stark is able to to time travel into the future with the help of a drug given to him by a physican in the "hellish" setting of a pyschiatric ward where he is falsely incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Also, several versions of movie posters from both films are eeriely similar.
- Themes from the 1995 film, 12 Monkeys. Both James Cole and Jack Stark are time-travelling convicts (who have also been thrown into psychiatric wards) who find it difficult to escape their fate.
- Thematic elements and dialogue from the 1980 film, Somewhere in Time
- Group therapy scenes from the 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- "The Jacket" shares a title and key themes (the jacket as a torture device and not merely a restraint, and some kind of discorporeal time-travel by a jacketed prisoner) with a 1915 novel by Jack London, published in the England as The Jacket and in the U. S. as The Star Rover.
Main cast See also External links Jacket, The Jacket, The
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