Jacob's Ladder
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
1990 | 113m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Adrian Lyne |
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| Writer: | Bruce Joel Rubin |
| Staring: |
| After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 02, 1990 |
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| Director: | Adrian Lyne |
| Writer: | Bruce Joel Rubin |
| Genres: | Drama, Horror, Mystery |
| Keywords | new york city, vietnam veteran, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), 1970s, subway, experiment, paranoia, nightmare, hallucination, car bomb, grief, memory, chemist, demon, postal worker, figment of imagination, oneiric, chiropractor |
| Production Companies | Carolco Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $26,118,851
Budget: $25,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey L. Kimball | Director of Photography |
| Chester Slomka | Sound Editor |
| Tom Rolf | Editor |
| Neil Burrow | Sound Editor |
| Mike Getlin | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Tod A. Maitland | Sound Recordist |
| Russell Cate | Makeup Effects Designer |
| Scott Burrow | Sound Editor |
| Maurice Jarre | Original Music Composer |
| Bruce Joel Rubin | Writer |
| Ellen Mirojnick | Costume Design |
| Richard Dean | Makeup Artist |
| Risa Bramon Garcia | Casting |
| Heidi Levitt | Casting |
| Greg Orloff | Foley |
| Steve Pederson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Clayton Townsend | Production Manager |
| Edward L. Sandlin | Sound Editor |
| Richard Burrow | Sound Editor |
| Joseph P. Reidy | First Assistant Director |
| James Brown | Songs |
| Peewee Piemonte | Stunts |
| Deborah Lupard | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Marvin Gaye | Songs |
| Al Jolson | Songs |
| Steve Dewey | Sound Effects |
| Gary Shepherd | Sound Editor |
| Jeremy Conway | Art Direction |
| Gordon Davidson | Sound Editor |
| Brian Morris | Production Design |
| W. Steven Graham | Art Direction |
| Kathleen Dolan | Set Decoration |
| Michael R. Sloan | Post-Production Manager |
| LaBelle | Songs |
| David Hykes | Songs |
| Milton C. Burrow | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Mark Gordon | Sound Editor |
| Billy Hopkins | Casting |
| Vebe Borge | Second Assistant Director |
| Adrian Lyne | Director |
| Andy Nelson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Peter Bucossi | Stunts |
| James McMillan | Grip |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Bruce Joel Rubin | Producer |
| Mario Kassar | Executive Producer |
| Andrew G. Vajna | Executive Producer |
| Alan Marshall | Producer |
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Trippy. No, you probably didn't read that right. I meant to write it in a way that sounded more like a stoner. Tripppy? Tttttrrrrrriiiippppppyyyyy, duuuude. Something like that. Anyway, I love Tim Robbins as an actor and you should take that statement into consideration when I say that this is ... one of his better films. What I can say is that a doctor goes to Vietnam, and then leaves his wife, marries someone else becomes a Postal Employee, and that is about as much as I can honestly say without throwing the spoiler alert up. It is one of those movies where everything you love about the plot would be a red flag on the spoiler radar... so watch it, enjoy it, you won't be disappointed. And you will see what I am talking about with the spoilers when you get there.