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Jacob Singer makes a desperate bid to solve the mystery of his terrifying hallucinations...

Product Identifiers

ProducerAlan Marshall

EAN5060021175502

eBay Product ID (ePID)3959294

Product Key Features

ActorElizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Macaulay Culkin, Tim Robbins

Film/TV TitleJacob's Ladder

DirectorAdrian Lyne

LanguageEnglish

Run Time108 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesWidescreen, Trailer-1. Original Theatrical Trailer

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerMaurice Jarre

Production DesignerBrian Morris

ReviewsNew York Times - ...A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film....Played with disarming ease and sharp, frightening urgency by [Robbins]...

Additional InformationAdrian 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 Pena). 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 Pena, 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.

ScreenwriterBruce Joel Rubin

Movie/TV TitleJacob's Ladder

EditorTom Rolf

Director of PhotographyJeffrey L. Kimball