The Jacket is a film about a man in a mental hospital who foresees his own death during horrific experiments that are performed upon him.
Trivia
- Mark Wahlberg and Colin Farrell were both considered for the role of Jack Starks
- To prepare for his role, Adrien Brody did prison exercises, went on a protein diet and did sessions in an isolation tank
- Anne Lambton was originally cast as Nurse Harding but fell ill with pancreatitis and was unable to continue filming
Review Quotes
"The Jacket" is a high-art popcorn movie masquerading as something more meaningful. A massively disappointing stab at Hollywood filmmaking by Brit helmer John Maybury (the scintillating Francis Bacon biopic "Love Is the Devil"), pic begins as a potentially intriguing study of the depersonalizing effects of warfare, only to end up a pastiche of time-travel and psycho-ward movie cliches -- a movie as lacking in personality as its amnesiac protagonist. All of which may matter little to a genre audience that, bamboozled by Maybury's flashy style and Massy Tadjedin's script, could turn this Warner Independent release into a sleeper March hit. — Variety