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Jacob's Ladder (1990)

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Starring (View all)
Tim Robbins Tim Robbins
Jacob
Danny Aiello Danny Aiello
Louis
Matt Craven Matt Craven
Michael


Written by
Bruce Joel Rubin Bruce Joel Rubin
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1 year, 9 months ago at Oct 27 23:03
7 votes
Llegó el mes de Halloween y me veía en la obligación de comentar una de mis películas favoritas del género que compete a la festividad. Hoy hablaremos un poco de Jacob's Ladder. Hay muchas razones por las que Jacob's Ladder es una de mis películas de terror preferidas, una de ellas es que es una obra que ambiciona a tener una trama con sus temas. La mayoría de las veces las películas de te... read more

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13 years, 11 months ago at Aug 11 13:55
7 votes
excellent fillm for any horror fans. More mental than visual delivers perfectly with a great end..

A good movie

8 years, 6 months ago at Jan 5 11:16
7 votes
To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and I should probably re-watch it at some point. In fact, I remember it quite well, back then, one of my best friends at the time told me he saw this amazing mindf*ck and advised me to watch it at soon as possible. Eventually, I think it still missed something to become really remarkable, maybe it was due to the fact that I’m not a h... read more
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Description: On 06 Oct 1971, in Vietnam, the American soldier Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah (Patricia Kalember), lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel (Elizabeth Peña) in a small Brooklyn apartment and misses his young son Gabe (Macaulay Culkin), who died in an accident for which Jacob feels responsible. During the next days, Jacob is chased by demons and finds the army conspiracy against him, while having strange visions during different moments of hi ... (more)
Release date: 2 November 1990
UPC: 012236045809
Tags: Horror (28), Vietnam (14), War (13), Drugs (12), Thriller (11), Hallucinations (11), Chiropractor (10), 1990 (9), Postman (8), Mystery (7), Vet (7), Experiments (7), Vietnam War (6), 1990s (5), (5), New York (4), Tim Robbins (4), Soldier (3), Flashback (3), Party (3)
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" On 06 Oct 1971, in Vietnam, the American soldier Jacob Singer is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah, lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel in a small Brooklyn apartment and misses his young son Gabe, who died in an accident for which Jacob feels responsible. During the next days, Jacob is chased by demons and finds the army conspiracy"


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" On 06 Oct 1971, in Vietnam, the American soldier Jacob Singer is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah, lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel in a small Brooklyn apartment and misses his young son Gabe, who died in an accident for which Jacob feels responsible. During the next days, Jacob is chased by demons and finds the army conspiracy"


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Gladus posted a review 1 year, 9 months ago

“Llegó el mes de Halloween y me veía en la obligación de comentar una de mis películas favoritas del género que compete a la festividad. Hoy hablaremos un poco de Jacob's Ladder.

Hay muchas razones por las que Jacob's Ladder es una de mis películas de terror preferidas, una de ellas es que es una obra que ambiciona a tener una trama con sus temas. La mayoría de las veces las películas de terror se reducen a ser espectáculos de monstruos o gore. Aquí se dejan de tonterías para hablar directamente de algo tan humano como lo es la culpa, los miedos, los traumas post guerra ( TEPT) y la trascendencia.

La historia nos narra la vida de un ex veterano de Vietnan llamado Jacob Singer. Ya de base la película nos deja bien en claro que estará llena de simbolismos y a” read more


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