"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff, a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound rucksack 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.
Production Universal Pictures; Red Wagon Productions; Neal Street Productions [gb]; Motion Picture KAPPA Produktionsgesellschaft [de];
Cast Names John Eric Staley; Merik Tadros; Kevin J. Tunell; Ryan Yerrick; Michael Broderick; Byron Browne; Patricia Lauriet; Nick Dash; Matt Duggan; Blake Ellis; Cantrell Harris; John Heiligenthal; Tuukka Jantti; Kenneth Lachapelle; Raven Lewis; Brian Mahoney; Justin Marchert; Michael Mercurio; Kelron Mixon; Ryan Moriarty; Brian Napolitan; Steve Nguyen; Eriq F. Prince; Matthew Saxe; Michael Servantes Jr.; Jake Gyllenhaal; Scott MacDonald; Peter Sarsgaard; Jamie Foxx; Lo Ming;
Box Office USD 62,647,540
Release Date 2005-11-04
Genres Biography; Drama; War;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong
sexual content.