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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
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, Road House
Memory, The Batman
Not Another Church Movie, Strays
Unsung Hero, The Fate of the Furious
Wrath of Man, Detained
The Fugitive, 10 Years
Summer Camp , Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Tempest
Heaven Is For Real, Flight of the Phoenix
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, Adam and Eve and National Lampoon's Pledge This!.
Jarhead DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Jarhead was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 .