Jarhead Movie

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Who's Involved:

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


The Batman, Knight and Day  


Not Another Church Movie, The Burial  


Unsung Hero, Legion  


Wrath of Man, Battle of the Year  


10 Years, The Hurt Locker  


Major League 4, Naked  


The Town, Little Women  


Heaven Is For Real, KIMI  


Earworm, A Million Ways to Die in the West  

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 National Lampoon's Pledge This!, Chicken Little 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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