JACOB’S LADDER

USA | 1990 | DCP | 119 min.
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello
Jacob Singer (Robbins) is a Vietnam veteran whose traumatic, half-remembered battlefield experience leaves him psychologically unmoored as he struggles to build a life after the war. Years later, strange accidents, hallucinations, and the deaths of those around him convince Jacob that he and his fellow soldiers may have been victims of a secret military experiment. As his grip on reality frays, Jacob searches desperately for the truth, unsure whether what he is uncovering is conspiracy, trauma, or something even more terrifying. Working from a script by Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), director Lyne finds extraordinary visuals that put forth the “frightening notion that paradise and the inferno are all about us here on Earth, and that we participate in one or the other almost by choice…This movie [is] exhilarating in the sense that I was able to observe filmmakers working at the edge of their abilities and inspirations” (Roger Ebert). A new 4K restoration of Jacob’s Ladder will be screened.