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Jarhead (2005)

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Year of U.S. Release: 2005

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Laz Alonso, Brian Geraghty, Dennis Haysbert, Chris Cooper, Jacob Vargas, Evan Jones.

Director: Sam Mendes

Screenwriter(s): William Broyles, Anthony Swofford

Producer(s): Doug Wick, Lucy Fisher

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Prod. Company: Red Wagon Productions, Neal Street Productions, MP Kappa Productions

Prod. Cost: $70,000,000 (Estimated)

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, War, Drama

Runtime: 123 min.

Shooting Locations: Brawley, California, USA; New Mexico, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Yuma, Arizona, USA

U.S. Release Date: November 04, 2005 (Wide)

U.S. DVD Release Date: March 07, 2006

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for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.

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Plot Summary:

''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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