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Posted by DVD Reviewer Competitions on 05/22/06 10:51
Attention soldier, Universal Pictures is proud to announce the release of
Jarhead, available to own and rent on DVD from 15th May 2006. Starring
Oscar winner Jamie Foxx ( Ray, Collateral) and Jake Gyllenhaal ( Donnie
Darko, Brokeback Mountain), and directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (
American Beauty, Road To Perdition), Jarhead is the darkly funny,
action-packed screen adaptation of the best-selling autobiography by former
US Marine Anthony Swofford. Welcome to the suck.
In 1991, nineteen year old Anthony Swofford (Gyllenhaal) is a third
generation marine enlistee. Conceived on a military base in Germany, he
maintains the family mantle and enrols at a military training academy with
the innate hunger and desire to kill on behalf of the US government. Having
signed up, he is barracked and mocked by his peers and Staff Sergeant Sykes
(Foxx), while undergoing a brutal training regime in preparation for the
upcoming Gulf War. Swofford quickly excels as a marksman, and is selected to
be part of an elite sniper unit where he is paired with redneck country boy
Troy (Sarsgaard), before being despatched to Saudi Arabia to adapt to the
desert heat, ahead of the imminent conflict with Iraq.
Closes 04/06/06
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