| SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
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.
An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically
packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is laced with dark wit, honest
inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant,
tragic and absurd.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Release Date:
November 4, 2005
RELATED LINKS__________
Poster/Photos from the movie
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