Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 1991 Jack Starks a US Marine Sergeant serving in the Persian Gulf War receives a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head Although he recovers the incident leaves him with shock-related amnesia After his release with nowhere to go Starks who has no relatives returns to his native Vermont Nine months later hitchhiking along a snowbound Vermont highway Starks encounters a broken down pick-up truck The driver a drunken disoriented mother named Jean & her eight-year-old daughter Jackie are stranded at the roadside With Jean too drunk to speak with him Starks approaches Jackie & offers his help & gets the truck started Starks continues hitchhiking & is picked up by a station wagon driven by a young man headed for the Canadian border Shortly afterward the car is pulled over by the police & Starks blacks out When he awakens he finds himself on trial for murder in a small town court Found not guilty by reason of insanity Starks is committed to Alpine Grove a state institution for the criminally insane There a staff physician Dr Becker subjects Starks to a jarring experimental treatment involving mind-altering drugs & claustrophobic physical restraint Once medicated Starks is wrapped in jacket-like restraints & left alone for hours at a time in a corpse drawer located in the hospital&s basement morgue And in the drawer in the dark & under the influence Starks initially experiences flickers of memory from the war & the shooting of the police officer Under this regimen he begins putting together bits of his past & tries to make sense of his circumstances The past gives way to the future when he is suddenly transported to a diner in Vermont where he meets Jackie a waitress who takes pity on him & tries to help him find a place to sleep for the night It is Christmas Eve & all of the local homeless shelters are full so Jackie allows Starks to sleep on her couch In these hours Starks begins to realize that the drawer he&s been confined to is the secret to his recovery & that his future & well-being lie in the hands of the girl he&s just met Actors Adrien Brody Keira Knightley Daniel Craig Kris Kristofferson Jennifer Jason Leigh Kelly Lynch Mackenzie Phillips Brad Renfro Steven Mackintosh & Brendan Coyle Director John Maybury Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)