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Jacob's Ladder

1990

Adrian Lyne

Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven ...

6.8

10,694

Drama. Horror. Mystery Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is a thoroughly painful and depressing experience - but, it must be said, one that has been powerfully written, directed and acted (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A piece of luridly baroque metaphysical trash"	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film about what in other hands would be a decidedly unsalable subject, namely death"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There’s a word for a movie that dresses up the usual cheap tricks with real human suffering and a bogus patina of truth: offensive"	NEG
United States	Peter Rainer Los Angeles Times	"In the best puzzle movies, the pieces fit -- eventually. But if you try to piece together 'Jacob's Ladder', all you get for your trouble is more pieces"	NEG

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