Part of Restoration Roundup
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.
This restoration was completed by ROUNDABOUT–USA from the original negative scanned and restored in 4K. The color grading and restoration was supervised by Adrian Lyne. This project was brought to you by STUDIOCANAL and supervised by Delphine Roussel and Jean-Pierre Boiget.
“The movie lives right on the raw edge of insanity, and carries us along with it…. What JACOB’S LETTER really wants to do is to evoke the feeling of a psychological state in the audience. We are intended to feel what the hero feels.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times “A bold, powerful psychological horror film…. Thanks to a remarkable script by Bruce Joel Rubin and the directorial skills of Adrian Lyne (whose infernal vision of New York is even more effective here than in FATAL ATTRACTION), this works as both a highly effective stream-of-consciousness puzzle thriller offering the viewer not one but many ‘solutions’ and an emotionally persuasive statement about the plight of many American vets who fought in Vietnam.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
