Jarhead

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Wade Williams, Skyler Stone, Mike Akrawi, Katherine Randolph, Matthew Atherton, Laz Alonso, Lucas Black, Rini Bell, Michael Broderick, Becky Boxer, Brian Casey, Byron Browne, Ammar Daraiseh, Chris Cooper

Director: Sam Mendes
Release Date: November 4th, 2005
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Universal Pictures
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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.