The Jacket

by Massy Tadjedin, directed by John Maybury

Release: 23 January 2005
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Horror
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Committed to the Alpine Grove asylum for a murder he didn’t commit, brain-damaged war veteran Jack Starks is subjected to sensory deprivation in a straightjacket, which sends him fifteen years into the future for several hours at a time where he meets the adult version of Jackie, a small girl whom he briefly met and was kind to shortly before being incarcerated. He learns from Jackie that back in the asylum he has only a few days to live, and together, he and Jackie try to figure out a way to escape that fate.

The story is loosely based on Jack London’s The Star Rover, although London’s protagonist travels through the stars and into past lives. Using future information to change the present was never part of London’s story.

— Michael Main

No, no you didn’t. Jack Starks did, and Jack Starks is dead. He’s dead. His body was found New Year’s Day, 1993, Alpine Grove. He’s dead.

DEBUT

The Jacket (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 23 January 2005).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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