The Jacket

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.

1. Mark Wahlberg and Colin Farrell were both considered for the role of Jack Starks
2. To prepare for his role, Adrien Brody did prison exercises, went on a protein diet and did sessions in an isolation tank
3. Anne Lambton was originally cast as Nurse Harding but fell ill with pancreatitis and was unable to continue filming

"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