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Summary:
A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in 1991. After experiencing the rigors of boot camp, Swofford and his pal Troy... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal - (Anthony "Swoff" Swofford)
Peter Sarsgaard - (Allen Troy)
Lucas Black - (Chris Kruger)
Brian Geraghty - (Fergus O'Donnell)
Jacob Vargas - (Cortez)
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Review:
Sam Mendes' Jarhead does not tell a new story. Countless other films have shown how war affects soldiers. Mendes is savvy enough to know this and goes so far as to reference Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now early in the film almost as a way of admitting how pedestrian his basic story is. What sets this film apart is that although... Continue >>

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