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The Jacket is a 2005 American science-fiction psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the 1915 Jack London novel The Star Rover , published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket . [ 4 ]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 0% based on reviews from 5 critics, with an average rating of 2.50/10 rating. [2]Both RogerEbert.com [3] and Slant Magazine gave the film one star out of four, with the later writing "The Institute seems constantly on the verge of dipping into spoof, though of what exactly is difficult to say".
Variety wrote that "Crichton's film drags in dialog bouts, but triumphs when action takes over." [19] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and singled out Connery, writing that the actor "is one of the best light comedians in the movies, and has been ever since those long-ago days when he was James Bond."
The American Film Institute provides a summary of the film's narrative: In Russia, university student Roderick Raskolnikov graduates with honors. Even though he is hailed as an authority on crime, Roderick lives in poverty. When Roderick learns that his family is coming to visit, he decides to pawn the heirloom watch he received for graduation.
Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer John Sladek. It was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award and was followed in 1983 by Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine .
Enter a Murderer is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh.This is her second novel to feature Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1935.The novel is the first of the theatrical novels for which Marsh was to become famous, taking its title from a line of stage direction in Macbeth.
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Scales of Justice is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh. it is the eighteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1955.. With a classic 'Golden Age' crime novel's setting, in the idyllic, self-contained, rural English community of Swevenings, the suspects are all members of a tight-knit social group revolving around the local baronet and his family, the Lacklanders.