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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Genre: Biopic [feature], War Drama, Drama, War
Release Date: November 04, 2005 (USA)
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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, Sw... 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 ... Continue >>

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