| | Jacob's Ladder DVD (14 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Horror DVDs, Dramas Movies, Thriller Videos, Mystery, Suspense, Recommended, Ghosts, Death, Psychodrama, Vietnam, Afterlife | | Starring | Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Ving Rhames, Jason Alexander, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Eriq La Salle, Bryan Larkin, Patricia Kalember, Brian Tarantina | | Director | Adrian Lyne | | Composer | Maurice Jarre | | Director of Photography | Jeffrey L. Kimball | | Editor | Tom Rolf | | Producer | Alan Marshall | | Production Designer | Brian Morris | | Screenwriter | Bruce Joel Rubin |
DVD. Feature film. Rated R. CC. 116 min. Vietnam War veteran Jacob Singer, now at home in New York City, teeters on the edge of psychological collapse as he nurses the emotional scars of his combat experience, and feelings of guilt surrounding personal tragedies in his stateside family life. However, when he begins suffering from intense, hellish hallucinations and near-accidents, he questions whether his torment is actually in his mind, or the result of clandestine experiments performed on Army grunts such as himself. A complex, twisted story that wrings rich performances from its leads, leaving the viewer exhausted and mystified, yet completely involved every step of the way. 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 Peña). 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 Peña, 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, searingly searching performance as Jacob; brilliant editing additionally rounds out this engrossing, disturbing film. JACOB'S LADDER is a jolting experience that is not easily forgotten. Theatrical release: November 1990.
Bruce Joel Rubin began writing JACOB'S LADDER in the fall of 1980 and finished a year later. His script bounced around Hollywood from one director to another; in 1984 it was listed in AMERICAN FILM as one of the ten best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Eventually, when Lindsay Doran became a vice president at Paramount Pictures, the studio purchased it.
JACOB'S LADDER was filmed entirely on location in New York and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Jacob's Ladder Reviews: "...A slick, riveting, viscerally scary film....Played with disarming ease and sharp, frightening urgency by [Robbins]..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Jacob's Ladder | List Price | $9.98 (You save $2.99) | | Studio | Artisan | | Orig Year | 1990 | | All Time Sales Rank |  595  | | CD Universe Part number | 1143547 | | Catalog number | 60458 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 14, 1998 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 116 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Special Edition | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Digitally Mastered; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Letter Boxed; Widescreen; Special Edition |
Jacob's Ladder Movie Review Average Rating: (3.5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Service from CD Universe
Hi,
I live in Perth Western Australia and the DVD i wanted just isnt available in Oz. I searched many sites and found CD Universe. Their service was fantastic. I was epecting a longer delivery time but got the DVD in 7 working days all the way from the US.
Anyway, this film is absolutely fantastic. Gripping and certainly leaves alot to the imagination. Especially the ending.
EXCELLENT. Love Tim RObbins. One pf his best ever performances along side Arlington Rd.
Submitted by liisa (Western Australia) 
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 Extras to go mad for!
There's really very little to say about this film - if you've seen it, then you know its brilliance; if you haven't, you know what to do! What's truly remarkable about this disc is the extras. I've spent years trying to get the measure of this movie, and to finally hear the writer and director confirm all of my feelings about it was an absolute joy! The techniques and themes have been endlessly imitated but never bettered, as the echoes resound through just about every psychlogical thriller made since, from the impressive (Sixth Sense) to the not so impressive (Stigmata). And to hear that Jonathan Demme has been contacted by people with terminal illnesses, saying that the film has helped them to come to terms with their condition, lends it a gravitas that I could never have appreciated previously. Okay, so the extras are thin on the ground, but what is there is absolute gold-dust! I must have watched this film a hundred times, but for the first time, I cried like a baby.
Submitted by bersgard (Cornwall, England)
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EXCELLENT!!!!
I can't recommend this movie enough. It's a very powerful movie to say the least.
Submitted by Matt (known on YouTube as mematt665) (West Virginia, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Freaky And Creepy
This movie scared the hell out of me. The visual affects were bone-chilling. The way those heads would shake out of control creeped me out. This one gave me nightmares. The ending was a complete suprise. It makes you think how life and death are one in the same and where does one begin and the other end. I left this movie feeling uneasy and wanting to examine my life from start to finish. It makes you think and feel, signs of a great movie.
Submitted by Kirsten (Springfield, IL, USA)
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I am Pleased such movies are made
this is an amazing film with Tim playing a great role. Very well Directed and class acting all round, see this now if not seen yet!
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