Posted by Deb Phillipson on 05/15/06 16:59

1991
"DVD Reviewer Competitions" <nospam@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message news:ml0ag.1170$e85.574@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
> 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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