The Jacket is a 2005 American science fantasy 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 1915 Jack London novel The Star Rover, published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket. 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 a Gulf 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.
| Director | John Maybury |
| Produced by | George Clooney, Peter Guber, Steven Soderbergh, Marc Rocco |
| Writer(s) | Massy Tadjedin |
| Starring | Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Daniel Craig |
| Music | Brian Eno |
| Cinematography | Peter Deming |
| Edited by | Emma E. Hickox |
| Production, company | Mandalay Pictures, 2929 Entertainment, Section Eight |
| Distributed by | Warner Independent Pictures |
| Released | January 23, 2005 (Sundance), March 04, 2005 (United States) |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $29 million |
| Box office | $21.1 million |
| Netflix ID | 70020748 |
About The Jacket
A gulf war veteran, played by Adrien Brody, mysteriously finds himself wrongly ordered into a mental hospital and soon becomes the lab rat of a doctor's unusual treatment plans. The film is based off the novel titled The Star Rover by Jack London.
Achievement of The Jacket
George Clooney produced the film. The movie takes place in 1992, 1993, and 2007 in Vermont.
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Latest information about The Jacket updated on July 28 2021.
