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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Adrian Lyne |
| Stars: |
Elizabeth Peqa |
| Actors: |
Eriq La Salle |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Recommended · Ghosts · Vietnam · Psychodrama · Death · Afterlife · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Sensormatic |
| UPC: |
012236894933 |
| Release Date: |
1990 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 56min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Sensormatic
Release Company: Lions Gate Home Entertainment (October 24, 2006)
UPC: 012236604587 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 53min
Release Company: Movies Unlimited (May 23, 1991) |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Bruce Joel Rubin |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/02/1990, p.C12, Janet Maslin): "...A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film....Played with disarming ease and sharp, frightening urgency by [Robbins]..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 Peqa). 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 Peqa, 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, seari... |
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