The Jacket (Original title)
Dates: 2004 (Copyright), 13 May 2004 (Release)Countries: Germany, USA, United KingdomDirected by: John Maybury
Synopsis: An American soldier is shot in the head during the Gulf War, but comes back to life after being pronounced dead. A year later, he helps a woman and daughter fix their car, then hitches a lift with a man who turns out to be a fugitive. There is a gunfight with the police and the protagonist blacks out. When he awakes he is accused of murder and told that the fugitive and the mother and daughter did not exist. He is found not guilty due to insanity and is placed in the care of a menacing psychologist. He begins to experience both flashbacks and flashforwards, the latter throwing him together with the daughter of the woman he helped, now fifteen years older.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Mental hospitals, Amnesia, Time travel, Claustrophobia
Releases
Date: 13 May 2005Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Super-35 - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 102 mins 58 secs - Length: 9266 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros Distributors (UK)
Dates: 2004 (Copyright), 13 May 2004 (Release)Countries: Germany, USA, United KingdomDirected by: John Maybury
Synopsis: An American soldier is shot in the head during the Gulf War, but comes back to life after being pronounced dead. A year later, he helps a woman and daughter fix their car, then hitches a lift with a man who turns out to be a fugitive. There is a gunfight with the police and the protagonist blacks out. When he awakes he is accused of murder and told that the fugitive and the mother and daughter did not exist. He is found not guilty due to insanity and is placed in the care of a menacing psychologist. He begins to experience both flashbacks and flashforwards, the latter throwing him together with the daughter of the woman he helped, now fifteen years older.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Mental hospitals, Amnesia, Time travel, Claustrophobia
Releases
Date: 13 May 2005Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Super-35 - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 102 mins 58 secs - Length: 9266 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros Distributors (UK)
Credits
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©/Co-produced by: VIP Medienfonds 2, VIP Medienfonds 3, ©: MP Pictures, Presented by: Warner Independent Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, In association with: 2929 Entertainment, Rising Star, A production by: Section Eight Productions, Filmed with the co-operation of: Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office, Executive Producer: Ben Cosgrove, Executive Producer: Ori Marmur, Executive Producer: Jennifer Fox, Executive Producer: Peter E. Strauss, Executive Producer: Todd Wagner, Executive Producer: Mark Cuban, Executive Producer: Andy Grosch, Executive Producer: Chris Roberts, Executive Producer: Timothy J. Nicholas, Co-executive Producer: Peter McAleese, Producer: Peter Guber, Producer: George Clooney, Producer: Steven Soderbergh, Co-producer: Marc Rocco, Co-producer: Marc Frydman, Co-producer: Philip A. Mckeon, Co-producer: Donald C. Mckeon, Co-producer: Andreas Schmid, Co-producer: Kia Jam, Unit Manager: Beverley Syme, Unit Manager (Canadian Unit): Gilles Perreault, Production Manager (Canadian Unit): Jacky Lavoie, Production Supervisor: Shellie Smith, Production Co-ordinator: Donald Sabourin, Production Co-ordinator (Canadian Unit): Sylvie Martin, Production Controller: George Lakes, Production Accountant: Louise O'Malley, Production Accountant (Canadian Unit): Gilles Montreuil, Location Manager: Lloret Dunn, Location Manager (Canadian Unit): Bernard Rodrigue, Post-production Supervisor: Jeanette Haley, Post-production Co-ordinator: Lucie Graves, Production Consultant: Jonathan Strauss, Assistant Director (1st): Karen Richards, Assistant Director (2nd): Raymond Kirk, Assistant Director (Canadian Unit 2nd): Bethan Maowat, Script Supervisor: Caroline O'Reilly, US Casting by: Laray Mayfield, UK Casting by: Nina Gold, Canadian Casting (Canadian Unit): Aldo Tirelli, Mike Migliara, Screenplay by: Massy Tadjedin, Story by: Tom Bleecker, Marc Rocco, Director of Photography: Peter Deming, 2nd Unit Dir of Photog (Canadian Unit): Stefan Ivanov, Steadicam Operator: Roger Tooley, Steadicam Operator (Canadian Unit): François Daignault, Gaffer: Tom Gates, Gaffer (Canadian Unit): Sylvain Bernier, Still Photographer: Paul Chedlow, Still Photographer (Canadian Unit): Jonathan Wenk, Visual Effects by: Double Negative, Special Effects Supervisor: David Harris, Special Effects by (Canadian Unit): Intrigue, Editor: Emma E. Hickox, Production Designer: Alan Macdonald, Supervising Art Director: Margaret Horspool, Art Director: Caireen Todd, Art Director: Stephen Campbell, Art Director (Canadian Unit): Isabelle Guay, Jean-Pierre Paquet, Set Designer (Canadian Unit): Brent Lambert, Set Decorator: Liz Griffiths, Set Decorator (Canadian Unit): Daniel Hamelin, Robert Parle, Property Master: Gordon Fitzgerald, Property Master (Canadian Unit): Marc C. de Léry, Construction Manager: Colin Fraser, Costume Designer: Doug Hall, Costume Supervisor: Anna Lau, Costume Supervisor (Canadian Unit): Art Reasonover, Make-up/Hair Designer: Veronica Brebner, Make-up Artist: Heather Millington, Ashley Johnson, Make-up Artist (Canadian Unit): Tomoko Hidaka, Hairstylist (Canadian Unit): Tahira Herold, Main/End Titles Design by: Matt Curtis, Digital Intermediate by: Framestore CFC, Laboratory: DeLuxe Laboratories, Original Music by: Brian Eno, Music Supervisor: Andy Richards, Sound Designer: Paul Davies, Production Sound Mixer: Colin Nicolson, Boom Operator: Tony Cook, Boom Operator (Canadian Unit): Louis Piché, [Sound] Re-recording Mixer: Tim Alban, Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Davies, Stunt Co-ordinator: Andy Bradford, Stunt Co-ordinator (Canada): Dave McKeown, Military Adviser: Henry Camilleri, Military Medical Adviser: Edward Curtain, Psychiatric Adviser: Phil Harrison, Post-production Consultants: J & E Post Production, Armourer: Mark Shelley, Unit Publicist: Linda Gamble
Cast
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Adrien Brody (Jack Starks), Keira Knightley (Jackie Price), Kris Kristofferson (Dr Becker), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Dr Lorenson), Kelly Lynch (Jean), Brad Renfro (stranger), Daniel Craig (Mackenzie), Steven Mackintosh (Dr Hopkins), Brendan Coyle (Damon), Mackenzie Phillips (Nurse Harding), Laura Marano (young Jackie), Jason Lewis (Officer Harrison), Richard Dillane (Captain Medley), Jonah Lotan (intern 1), Angel Coulby (intern 2), Paul Birchard (doctor), Nigel Whitmey (lieutenant), Ian Porter (major), Antony Edridge (Dr Morgan), Kerry Shale (prosecutor), Angus Macinnes (judge), Richard Durden (Dr Hale), Tristan Gemmill (Officer Nash), Colin Stinton (jury foreman), Tara Summers (Nurse Nina), Angelo Andreou (Babak, Iraqi boy), Teresa Gallagher (Nurse Sally), Anne Kidd (state representative), Charneh Demir (Jamile, Iraqi mother), Frances Brady-Stewart (woman with dog), Lolly Susi (nurse), Garrick Hagon (defence lawyer), Fish (Jimmy Fleisher)