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Release date United States: Friday, November 4, 2005, DVD release: TBA

Director: Sam Mendes

Cast:

Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx as Sgt. Siek
Peter Sarsgaard as Troy
Mike Akrawi as Bedouin
Laz Alonso as Escobar
Rini Bell as Rini
Lucas Black as Kuhn
Becky Boxer as Dettman's Wife
Byron Browne as Bootcamp Marine D.Gillooly
Ammar Daraiseh
Brianne Davis as Kristina

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.

Genres:
Action - Drama - War

Producers: Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher

Writers: William Broyles Jr. (screenplay) Anthony Swofford (novel)

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