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THE JACKET is a
gothic thriller,
starring Adrien
Brody and Keira
Knightley that deals
with a kalaidoscope
of mortal issues
as seen through
the eyes of a man
driven to waking
dreams of time travel.
But are his dreams
real?
Jack Starks is a
returning Gulf War
vet, hitchhiking
in the snows of
Vermont, who stops
to help a drunken
mother and her 8
year old daughter.
The mother callously
refuses Jack's help,
but he and the girl
have already made
a sympathetic and
heartfelt connection.
Months later, Jack
is convicted of
a murder, judged
to be guilty but
insane, and jailed
in a mental facility
where he is subjected
to an experimental
treatment involving
mind-altering drugs.
Once medicated,
he is wrapped in
jacket-like restraints
and left alone for
hours at a time
in a corpse drawer
located in the hospital's
basement morgue.
Under the mind shattering
influence of drugs
and sensory deprivation,
Jack's mind frees
him and he experiences
a future in which
he must face the
fate that awaits
him, and change
the fate of the
child he never forgot.
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