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Jarhead (2005)

R  |   |  Drama, War  |  4 November 2005 (USA)
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Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.

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Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Every man fights his own war. See more »

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Drama | War

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Rated R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content | See all certifications »

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4 November 2005 (USA)  »

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Soldado anónimo  »

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Budget:

$70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$27,726,210 (USA) (4 November 2005)

Gross:

$2,340,121 (Australia) (24 February 2006)
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Cooper first worked together on October Sky (1999), although they only share one scene in this film. See more »

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The chartered planes aboard which the Marines arrive in the Middle East are 747-400s, which were not yet in service in 1990, and which were never operated by TWA before it was acquired by American Airlines. (TWA operated 747-100s and 747-200s.) See more »

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Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.
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At the end of the credits, Sykes can be heard calling out the following military cadence, with his platoon responding: 'All my life it was my dream/ To be a bad motherfucking U.S. Marine.' See more »

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Written by Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Vin Rock (as Vincent Brown),
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Just saw an advanced screening of this tonight. While it isn't the film that has been so brilliantly advertised, it's a very solid film. It feels a lot like "Full Metal Jacket" early on, but with more humor. Then, it becomes an entirely new animal. More of a psychological study. I would actually call this the "Blair Witch Project" of war films in that you (and the characters) know the Boogeyman's "out there," you're just waiting for him to strike. And the longer you wait, the more stir-crazy you become within your own mind.

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