Jacobs Ladder (Special Edition) (1990)

Director: Adrian Lyne  Starring: Tim Robbins  Elizabeth Peña  Danny Aiello  
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Publisher: Artisan
Format: DVD
UPC: 00012236045809
Buy.com Sku: 40098313
Item#: V6KKG9
Buy.com Sales Rank: 23851
Category Keywords: Afterlife  Death  Ghosts  Psychodrama  Recommended  Suspense  Theatrical Release  Thriller  Vietnam 
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The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Spanish, Subtitled, Digitally Mastered, Dolby Surround Sound
 
Jacob, a Vietnam veteran plagued with demonic visions, can't help but wonder if he's going insane, or if there's some evil force trying to control him. Or worse, could he already be dead, and is this dark existence merely a hallucination?
 
"Brooding, often effective tale..."  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
 


Editor's Note

Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña). Louis (Danny Aiello), an understanding chiropractor, tries to help him cope with his nightmarish visions--some of which occur at night, while others intrude into his daily life. When Jacob gets a call from Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who was with him in Vietnam, it seems that Jacob is not alone in his visions. The film offers impressive and compelling performances by Peña, Aiello (no ordinary chiropractor), and Ving Rhames and Eriq La Salle (the latter of ER) as Jacob's comrades from Vietnam. Macaulay Culkin appears uncredited as Jacob's young son, Gabe. Director Lyne also guides an unerring interpretation of Bruce Joel Rubin's screenplay in Robbins's powerfully restless, searingly searching performance as Jacob; brilliant editing additionally rounds out this engrossing, disturbing film. JACOB'S LADDER is a jolting experience that is not easily forgotten.


Plot Summary

Vietnam War veteran Jacob Singer, now at home in New York City, teeters on the edge of psychological collapse as he nurses the emotional scars of his combat experience, and feelings of guilt surrounding personal tragedies in his stateside family life. However, when he begins suffering from intense, hellish hallucinations and near-accidents, he questions whether his torment is actually in his mind, or the result of clandestine experiments performed on Army grunts such as himself. A complex, twisted story that wrings rich performances from its leads, leaving the viewer exhausted and mystified, yet completely involved every step of the way.

 
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Release Information
Studio: Artisan
Release Date: 8/22/2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Original Release Date: 1990
Catalog ID: 60458
UPC: 00012236045809
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Available Subtitles: Spanish
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Danny Aiello
Elizabeth Pena
Matt Craven
Tim Robbins
Adrian Lyne - Director
Jeffrey L. Kimball - Director of Photography
Maurice Jarre - Musical Score
Mario Kassar, et al. - Producer
Bruce Joel Rubin - Writer

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film....Played with disarming ease and sharp, frightening urgency by [Robbins]..." 11/02/1990 p.C12

Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
This movie left me reeling with turmoil and confusion, with feelings of sadness and despair. Those are the notes it strives for... It evokes a paranoid-schizophrenic state as effectively as any film I have ever seen... a thoroughly painful and depressing experience--but, it must be said, one that has been powerfully written, directed and acted. - Roger Ebert
 

  
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