The Jacket

:For the Jack London novel published in the United Kingdom under this title, see The Star Rover. Although uncredited, key elements of the movie story may be based on this novel.

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The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film, directed by John Maybury. Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco.

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After miraculously recovering from a bullet-wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (played by Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont suffering from amnesia. He is accused of murdering a police officer, and is incarcerated in a mental institution in the year 1992.

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In the ward, Starks becomes subject to the experiments of Dr. Becker, a psychiatrist. Starks is injected with an experimental drug and put into a straitjacket; He is then locked in a morgue drawer. While in this condition, Jack's mind sends him into the future of 2007, where among other things he discovers that he is destined to die in four days time.

The Star Rover: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in England as The Jacket). It is a story of reincarnation. It evokes divided opinion; many London aficionados esteem it highly. It is unlike any other Jack London novel. Biographer Russ Kingman refers to it as mark...

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