Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. It stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, and Jason Alexander; Macaulay Culkin appears in an uncredited performance. Jacob Singer (Robbins) is a U.S. soldier deployed in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. When the story begins, helicopters are passing overhead, carrying supplies for what seems to be...
Jezzie tries to convince Jake that he needs to get out of the house because i...
Jake believes he is seeing demons and Jezzie tries to comfort him by explaini...
Jezzie tells Jake his lawyer called (Mr. Geary) and he told Jezzie that Jake ...
At the end of Jake's appointment with Louis, Jake looks up at Louis affection...
Louis is talking to Jake and calling him a philosopher while doing chiropract...
Jake recaps what Louis told him earlier, "If you're frightened of dying and y...
Jake jumps in a cab after his encounter with Michael and asks the cab driver ...
Michael is upset because he feels guilty about creating the drug that affecte...
Michael tells Jake the drug was used on his battalion and instead of the sold...
Michael is upset describing that when the POWS in Vietnam received the drug c...
Michael describes using jungle monkeys in experiments on the hallucinogenic L...
Michael describes the hallucinogenic drug called the ladder.
Michael tells Jake that instead of going to prison he was offered to go Vietn...
Michael explains to Jake that the government had him working in a lab making ...
Michael walks with Jake and explains that back in 1968 he was arrested for ma...
After Michael has a conversation with Jake on the phone about chemical warfar...
Louis continues to interpret for Jake the theory of hell from Meister Eckhart...
Jake tells Louis he was in hell. Louis then asks Jake if he ever read Meiste...
Louis gets Jake out of the hospital and brings him to his own office and exam...
Louis continues to be hostile toward the hospital attendants and picks up a p...
Louis yells at the nurses and attendants that Jake's medical treatment is mid...
Louis, Jake's chiropractor storms through the hospital screaming for Jake. Lo...
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