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 | | November 4th, 2005  | Sam Mendes |  | William Broyles, Jr. |  | Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert, Rini Bell |  | Universal Pictures |  | Drama |  | jarheadmovie.com |  | R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content |  | 127 minutes |  | $62,647,540 (US total) |  | Download (PDF) |
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 |  |  | | | 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. |
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 "Jarhead is a good, smart film. It brilliantly recreates an experience without romanticizing it or succumbing to melodrama."
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 "There are scenes of absolute beauty in Jarhead: the long trek through the oil-laden deserts of Iraq is frightening, but gorgeous to behold as plumes of smoke and geysers of oil shower the night with their evocations of barren hopelessness and death. Mendes should be commended for capturing some of the most picturesque, emotional charged imagery in recent cinema. "
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