<P> The Jacket is a 2005 American psychological thriller / horror film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh . It is partly based on the Jack London novel of the same name (published in the US as The Star Rover). Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco . The original music score is composed by Brian Eno with Roger Eno and the cinematography is by Peter Deming . </P> <P> The narrative is a time slip fantasy in which an Iraqi war veteran who suffered a death or near - death experience while on active service returns to the United States where he is blamed for the death of a policeman, and incarcerated in a hospital for the criminally insane . Subject to experimental treatments there, which involve him being shut inside a morgue casket while tied in a straitjacket, he eventually learns to travel through time and is able to offer help to various people . </P> <P> After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia . While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie (Laura Marano), and her alcoholic mother (Kelly Lynch) in despair beside their broken - down truck . Starks and Jackie quickly form a certain affinity; she asks him to give her his dogtags and he does so . He gets the truck started for them and continues on his way . Shortly after, a man driving along the same highway gives Jack a ride and they get pulled over by a policeman . </P> <P> The scene changes: Starks is found lying on the deserted roadside near the dead policeman, with a slug from the policeman's gun in his body . The murder weapon is on the ground nearby . Although he testifies there was someone else at the scene, he is not believed because of his amnesia . Starks is found not guilty by reason of insanity and is incarcerated in a mental institution . </P>

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