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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. 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.

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.

. Instead of traveling into the past to fix the present, Starks travels into the future to fix the past (or present depending on how you look at it). At first glance, this appears to be a hole in the plot, as there is nothing stopping Starks from travelling into the past to prevent the shooting which led to his wrongful incarceration and eventual death.. Protagonists from both films have near-death experiences while serving in the military and both experience what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder. The character of Jacob Singer in is able to glimpse a possible future as seen from purgatory (which Singer erroneously thinks is caused by his exposure to a drug in Vietnam); Singer is also helped by his chiropractor. Compare Singer's role with that of Jack Stark in : Stark is able to time-travel into the future with the help of a drug given to him by a physician in the "hellish" setting of a pyschiatric ward where he is falsely incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Also, several versions of movie posters from both films are eeriely similar.. Both James Cole and Jack Stark are time-travelling convicts (who have also been thrown into psychiatric wards) who find it difficult to escape their fate."The Jacket" shares a title and key themes (the jacket as a torture device and not merely a restraint, and some kind of discorporeal time-travel by a jacketed prisoner) with a 1915 novel by Jack London, published in the United Kingdom as