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:
It is this constant slippage into uncertainty that makes Jacob's Ladder unique. Lyne's focus on the sensual experiences of his character helps blur that line between dream and reality...
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The Ringer
...A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film....Played with disarming ease and sharp, frightening urgency by [Robbins]...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Without a strongly sympathetic figure at the center of the movie, Jacob's plight seems very remote. Watching this film should feel like being caught in a nightmare, but it feels more like watching someone else who is caught in a nightmare.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 2/4 --
Every story needs some kernel of internal logic, some hold on reality. But Lyne's film is like trying to scale a mountain of Jello. There's no solid ground. Everything is constantly shifting and undulating.
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Tulsa World
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: 3.5/4 --
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: 3/4 --
As long as the movie refuses to commit itself, it is a truly creepy, nerve-jangling experience.
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Chicago Tribune
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: 42,170
- UPC: 031398223979
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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