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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 02 November, 1990 DVD Release : 14 July, 1998 |
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Jacob's Ladder description Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. Or worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. Or perhaps his posttraumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its "surprise" ending. It owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and more straightforward story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek." Written by Bruce Joel Rubin, who also explored the "other side" in Ghost and My Life, it ultimately feels like an exercise in self-indulgence. A spirited performance by Elizabeth Peña outshines Robbins, who is surprisingly lethargic. --Rochelle O'Gorman |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | American Masterpiece |
| This film is as close to a masterpiece that American cinema has produced. Unfortunately it requires an explanatory companion piece to inform the viewer what is happening. Briefly stated: Tim Robbin's character has been mortally wounded in Viet Nam in the opening scenes and the entire film is about his dreams and visions preceding death on an operating room table. Every person who feels his life is the subject of intense and realistic self examination will recognize pieces and fragments of his own dreams and visions in the film. Not necessarily in the same order or with the same story line, but with the same resistances and the same symmetries. This film is definitely NOT for everybody and it is amazing that it was ever done, especially in Hollywood but there it is,the amazing exception to the overwhelming rule. | |
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