Jacob's Ladder (Blu-ray) R
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 25, 2015
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña & Danny Aiello | |
Performer: | Bryan Larkin, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Alexander, Patricia Kalember, Eriq La Salle, Ving Rhames, Brian Tarantina & Macaulay Culkin | |
Directed by | Adrian Lyne | |
Edited by | Tom Rolf | |
Screenwriting by | Bruce Joel Rubin | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Produced by | Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
As long as the movie refuses to commit itself, it is a truly creepy, nerve-jangling experience.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Jacob's Ladder is unique. Rarely is such an unconventional screenplay given this full-blown, $25 million studio treatment. It is a curiosity -- a mutant of a movie in an industry that specializes in clones.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
[Robbins' and Pena's] scenes together are the highlight of the film, so natural, so bright. That's why we're willing to invest a lot of time in what turns out to be a terribly overwrought plot.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Though [Lyne] arguably focuses more on the thriller elements than the existential ones, he still manages a seductive, nightmare-like quality.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's weird and surreal, but it ends with most of the holes plugged and all but a few of the loose ends tied into a tidy package. Some argue this is a cheat and the film should have been more open ended. That's a personal choice; I like it the way it is.
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ReelViews
In the best puzzle movies, the pieces fit -- eventually. But if you try to piece together Jacob's Ladder, all you get for your trouble is more pieces.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/4 --
For hours and days after you've seen it, you'll still be putting it together in your head. While all of it is gripping, it doesn't come together until the final scene, which is jolting, transcendent, unexpected yet inevitable.
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Seattle Times
Product Description:
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.
Keywords:
Ghosts
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Death
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Psychodrama
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Vietnam
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Afterlife
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 42,026
- UPC: 031398223979
- Shipping Weight: 0.14/lbs (approx)
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