Movie #: Title:   Year: 2005         IMDB mediatype
Genre: Director:     IMDB   Rating:  R  Box Set? box set?

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1305 Jarhead.mp41251435

Synopsis

Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck 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... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.  

More Info

USA Box Office: $63 Million Worldwide Box Office: $91 Million Budget Estimate: $70 Million Filming Locations: Brawley, California, USA| California State University Channel Islands - One University Drive, Camarillo, California, USA| California, USA| El Centro, California, USA| Holtville, California, USA| Imperial County, California, USA| Los Angeles, California, USA| Mexico| Santa Clarita, California, USA| Southern California Logistics Airport, near Victorville, California, USA| White Sands National Monument, near, Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA| Yuma, Arizona, USA


Cast overview, first billed only:
Jake Gyllenhaal .... Anthony Swofford
Scott MacDonald .... D.I. Fitch
Peter Sarsgaard .... Troy
Jamie Foxx .... Staff Sgt. Sykes
Lo Ming .... Bored Gunny (as Ming Lo)
Lucas Black .... Kruger
Kevin Foster .... Branded Marine
Brian Geraghty .... Fergus
Damion Poitier .... Poitier
Riad Galayini .... Nurse
Craig Coyne .... Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph .... Young Mrs. Swofford
Rini Bell .... Swoff's Sister
Dendrie Taylor .... Mrs. Swofford
James Morrison .... Mr. Swofford