Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 11/04/05 Home Video 03/07/06 MPAA Rating Rated R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content Running Time 1 hour 55 minutes Genre War, Drama Director Sam Mendes Writer William Broyles Cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert, Rini Bell Studio Universal Pictures |
JARHEAD
SYNOPSIS
Jake Gyllenhaal (The Day After Tomorrow, Moon-
light Mile), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral) and Peter
Sarsgaard (Kinsey, Boys Don't Cry) star in Universal
Pictures' Jarhead, the adaptation of Marine Anthony
Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into
his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf
War. Jarhead is directed by Academy Award®
winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to
Perdition) and the producers are Oscar® winner
Doug Wick (Gladiator) and Lucy Fisher (upcoming
Memoirs of a Geisha), partners in Red Wagon
Entertainment. The screenplay is by William
Broyles, Jr. (Cast Away, Apollo 13).
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
Jake Gyllenhaal (The Day After Tomorrow, Moon-
light Mile), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral) and Peter
Sarsgaard (Kinsey, Boys Don't Cry) star in Universal
Pictures' Jarhead, the adaptation of Marine Anthony
Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into
his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf
War. Jarhead is directed by Academy Award®
winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to
Perdition) and the producers are Oscar® winner
Doug Wick (Gladiator) and Lucy Fisher (upcoming
Memoirs of a Geisha), partners in Red Wagon
Entertainment. The screenplay is by William
Broyles, Jr. (Cast Away, Apollo 13).
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.
An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is
laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and
absurd.--©Universal Pictures
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.
An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is
laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and
absurd.--©Universal Pictures
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