"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 Jake Gyllenhaal; Scott MacDonald; Peter Sarsgaard; Jamie Foxx; Lo Ming; Lucas Black; Kevin Foster; Brian Geraghty; Damion Poitier; Riad Galayini; Craig Coyne; Katherine Randolph; Rini Bell; Dendrie Taylor; James Morrison; Arman Zajic; Brianne Davis; Brian Casey; Ernest Ozuna; Tyler Sedustine; Jacob Vargas; Laz Alonso; Jocko Sims; Jonathon R. Mize; Joel Prato; Kristin Richardson; Iván Fenyö; Peter Gail; Jamie Martz; Evan Jones; Kareem J. Grimes; Chris Cooper; Donna Kimball; Dennis Haysbert; Marty Papazian; Becky Boxer; Mark Davis; John Krasinski; Christian Reeve; Mike Akrawi;
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.