Jarhead Movie

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Who's Involved:

Jamie Foxx, Laz Alonso, Dennis Haysbert, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Mendes, Chris Cooper, Brian Geraghty, Doug Wick, William Broyles, Lucas Black, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucy Fisher, Jacob Vargas, Evan Jones, Anthony Swofford

R   RESTRICTED MPA
pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content
Runtime: 2 hrs, 3 m
Language: English

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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


Road House, In the Grey  


September 5, The Bride!  


Strays, Soul (re-release)  


Unsung Hero, Legion  


Detained , Wrath of Man  


10 Years, The Hurt Locker  


Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Major League 4  


The Bourne Identity, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood  


Devil, Heaven Is For Real  


Earworm, Mr. 3000  

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.

Director

Sam Mendes

Producers

Lucy Fisher
Doug Wick

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Production: What we know about Jarhead?

Key Facts

  1. The adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War.

Filming Timeline

  1. 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 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story.

Jarhead DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?

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Jarhead was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 .

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