Full Metal Jacket
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Summary:
Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel -The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R.... Full Summary >>
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Cast:
Matthew Modine - (Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis)
Adam Baldwin - (Animal Mother)
Vincent D'Onofrio - (Leonard Lawrence, Pvt. Gomer Pyle)
R. Lee Ermey - (Gunnery Sgt. Hartman)
Dorian Harewood - (Eightball)
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Review:
For his first film since 1980's The Shining, legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick turned his attention to this adaptation of Gustav Hasford's -The Short Timers, creating a harrowing Vietnam War picture that was one of the last of the slew of war films being made in this period in the late 1980s. Full Metal Jacket is widely described... Continue >>
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