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Jarhead

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In Movie Theaters:November 4, 2005
Total Box Office: in U.S. and Canada
On DVD & Blu-ray:March 7, 2006
Directed by:Sam Mendes
Starring:
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Peter Sarsgaard
Jamie Foxx
Lucas Black
Laz Alonso
Distributed by:Universal Pictures
Genres:Drama Action Adventure War
Running Time:123 minutes
MPAA Rating: for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.
Synopsis: "Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA—their elite Marine Unit.

Additional Notes: The adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War.

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