THE JACKET (2005)

Cast

Plot

Adrien Brody plays an amnesiac Gulf War veteran, who's either had part of his brain blown away, is a restless spirit or an angel, take it your own way, sentenced to life in a mental institution for a brutal killing he may, or may not, have done. There he is subjected to barbaric drug and sensory deprivation treatment during which he finds himself in 2007 with a girl, Keira Knightley, he met once in the past, a future, moreover, in which he discovers he has been dead for 14 years. How did he die? Forewarned, can he change the past? Avoid his own death? Escape from his life sentence? An intriguing and intelligent thriller from director John 'Love Is the Devil' Maybury.