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Jarhead

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Release date: November 4, 2005 More »


Director: Sam Mendes

Cast:

  • Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony Swofford
  • Scott MacDonald as D.I. Fitch
  • Peter Sarsgaard as Alan Troy
  • Jamie Foxx as Staff Sgt. Sykes
  • Lo Ming as Bored Gunny (as Ming Lo)
  • Lucas Black as Chris Kruger
  • Kevin Foster as Branded Marine
  • Brian Geraghty as Fergus O'Donnell
  • Damion Poitier as Poitier
  • Riad Galayini as Nurse
  • Craig Coyne as Young Mr. Swofford
  • Katherine Randolph as Young Mrs. Swofford
  • Rini Bell as Swoff's Sister
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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.

Producer: Bobby Cohen, Lucy Fisher, Pippa Harris, Sam Mercer, Douglas Wick

Writers: William Broyles Jr., Anthony Swofford
Official Site: http://www.jarhead.jp/