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Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin still recalls one viewer’s reaction to Jacob’s Ladder.   “I was stood outside the theatre on the very first day it opened in LA, waiting for the crowds to come out to see how they responded,” Rubin recalls. “As the credits started rolling this guy ran out, probably five feet from me, and yelled at nobody in particular: ‘If I ever meet the guy that wrote that movie, I’ll kill him.’”   It was  an extraordinary reaction but, then again, Jacob’s Ladder is an extraordinary movie.   Released on November 2, 1990, the film was only a modest success…