Storyline

The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go wrong when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by a stranger. The vet is wrongly accused of the killing and lands in an asylum. A disreputable doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a modified strength straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a cadaver drawer in the basement morgue. During the course of his treatment, he gets flashbacks and visions of his future where he can foresee that he is to die in four days time; He just doesn't know how. And thus commences the classic race against time for this tortured veteran with an expiration date.

Plot Keywords

child uses a gun, time travel, premarital sex, insane asylum, strait jacket, christmas, alternate history, altering history, ambiguity, shot in the chest, bath, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, experiment gone wrong, hallucination, mental illness, murder, soldier, sex, sergeant

Short Review

Ultimately it doesn't amount to much, but like Starks' drug-induced trip, The Jacket is about the journey not the destination.

Trailer

Streaming Service

1. Apple iTunes : Track Price: 9.99, Track Rental Price: 2.99, Collection Price: 9.99, Track Hd Price: 9.99, Track Hd Rental Price: 2.99, Collection Hd Price: 9.99

2. Microsoft Store : Rent From $2.99

3. Vudu : [SD - Buy: 9.99, Rent: 2.99] [HDX - Buy: 9.99, Rent: 2.99]

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