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- The Jacket is essentially a reversal of the time travel theme found in the 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect. Instead of traveling into the past to fix the present, Starks travels into the future to fix the past (or present depending on how you look at it). At first glance, this appears to be a hole in the plot, as there is nothing stopping Starks from travelling into the past to prevent the shooting which led to his wrongful incarceration and eventual death.
- The plot of the 1990 film, Jacob's Ladder has a number of similarities with The Jacket. Protagonists from both films have near-death experiences while serving in the military and both experience what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder. The character of Jacob Singer in Jacob's Ladder is able to glimpse a possible future as seen from purgatory (which Singer erroneously thinks is caused by his exposure to a drug in Vietnam); Singer is also helped by his chiropractor. Compare Singer's role with that of Jack Stark in The Jacket: Starks is able to time-travel into the future with the help of a drug given to him by a physician in the "hellish" setting of a psychiatric ward where he is falsely incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Also, several versions of movie posters from both films are eeriely similar.
- Themes from the 1995 film, 12 Monkeys. Both James Cole and Jack Starks are time-travelling convicts (who have also been thrown into psychiatric wards) who find it difficult to escape their fate.
- Thematic elements and dialogue from the 1980 film, Somewhere in Time
- Group therapy scenes from the 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- "The Jacket" shares a title and key themes (the jacket as a torture device and not merely a restraint, and some kind of discorporeal time-travel by a jacketed prisoner) with a 1915 novel by Jack London, published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket and in the United States of America as The Star Rover.
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