Jarhead (2005)

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8 Mile, Jarhead and The Kingdom All Come to Blu-ray This November

The Eminem film and Jake Gyllenhaal film will come out on November 18, while the Jamie Foxx film will debut in high-def on November 25.

Sep 5, 2008

Universal Has More HD-DVD Releases Planned for May

Titles to include Jarhead, Cinderella Man and The Bourne Supremacy.

Apr 14, 2006

EXCLUSIVE: Corporals Robert Vlasaty and Angel Serrano Talk Jarhead

The Marines talk about the movie, compare their experiences and discuss life as soldiers.

Mar 7, 2006

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter William Broyles Talks Jarhead

Scribe discusses writing the film, scripting movies like Cast Away and his new project Shadow Divers with Ridley Scott.

Mar 6, 2006

EXCLUSIVE: Talking Guns With Jarhead Weapons Coordinator Rock Galotti

Rock discusses working with Sam Mendes, the actors and how Tobe Hooper gave him his first job.

Mar 3, 2006

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Critics Score

61%

Release Date

November 4th, 2005

Director

Sam Mendes

Writers

William Broyles Jr.
Anthony Swofford

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal
Scott MacDonald
Peter Sarsgaard
Jamie Foxx
Lo Ming
Lucas Black

Jarhead 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.

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.