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The Jacket

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Keira Knightley and Adrian Brody in "The

Keira Knightley and Adrian Brody in "The Jacket."

Starrring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro and Daniel Craig.
Directed by: John Maybury.
Distributor: Warner Independent.
Release date: March 4, 2005.
Drama/Thriller: After recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to his native Vermont suffering from amnesia. When he is accused of murdering a police officer and committed to a mental institution, a physician, Dr. Becker, puts him on a controversial treatment regimen in which Starks is injected with experimental drugs, confined in a straight-jacket, and locked for extended periods in the body drawer of the basement morgue. In his drugged and disoriented state, Starks' mind propels him into the future, where he meets Jackie, and discovers that he is destined to die in four days. Together, they search for a way to save him from his fate.

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