The Jacket

The Jacket

Language : English
Year : 2005
Medical Theme : Amnesia
Actors : Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch
Storyline : A wounded Gulf war veteran returns to his native Vermont is suffersing from bouts of amnesia. He tries to hitch and ride and gets picked up by a stranger, who kills a cop who pulls them over. The veteran is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in a mental asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy for the veteran and retrains him in a heavy-duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The veteran gets flashbacks and visions of his future like he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how and then the classic race against time commences.