JACOB’S LADDER Trailer Debut Experience the first JACOB’S LADDER trailer! The film, directed by David M. Rosenthal (The Perfect Guy, A Single Shot), stars Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie, Guy Burnet, and Karla Souza. JACOB’S LADDER will be released in theaters on August 23. After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. A remake of the 1990 thriller starring Tim Robbins.