Jacob's Ladder Movie Review 1990

A man struggles with events he experienced while serving in Vietnam. Gradually, he becomes unable to separate reality from the strange, psychotic world into which he increasingly lapses. His friends and family try to help him before he's lost forever. Great story potential is flawed by too many flashbacks, leaving the viewer more confused than the characters.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 116 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Psycho-Thriller, Vietnam War, Postwar, Death & the Afterlife, Flashback

Screenplay

Bruce Joel Rubin

Cast

Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Alexander, Patricia Kalember, Eriq La Salle, Ving Rhames, Macaulay Culkin

Cinematography

Jeffrey L. Kimball

Director

Adrian Lyne

Music

Maurice Jarre

Producer

Mario Kassar, Alan Marshall, Carolco Pictures, Andrew G. Vajna