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pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content
Plot: What's the story about?
"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.
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Who stars in Jarhead: Cast List
In the Grey, End of Watch
The Batman, Lovelace
Not Another Church Movie, Soul (re-release)
Unsung Hero, Birthright Outlaw
Wrath of Man, Jumping the Broom
The Hurt Locker, Ass Backwards
Major League 4, Summer Camp
New York, I Love You, Remember Me
KIMI, Heaven Is For Real
A Million Ways to Die in the West, Earworm
Who's making Jarhead: Crew List
A look at the Jarhead behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Sam Mendes last directed Empire of Light and 1917. The film's writer William Broyles last wrote The Polar Express and Shadow Divers.
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Production: What we know about Jarhead?
Key Facts
- The adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War.
Filming Timeline
- 2004 - December: The film was set to Completed status.
Jarhead Release Date: When was the film released?
Jarhead was a release in 2005 on Friday, November 4, 2005. There were 5 other movies released on the same date, including Chicken Little, Killer Diller and Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story.
Jarhead DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Jarhead was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 .