Jarhead (R)
synopsis
"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff, a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound rucksack 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.
details
Drama
1 hr. 55 min.
Opened November 4th, 2005
MovieGoer Review
With hardly any body parts flyin’, no political agenda, no who’s-going-to-die-next tension of any kind, some may be disappointed Jarhead isn’t a typical war movie. But make no mistake, the film is about war--and it’ll still get unde... MORE
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synopsis
"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff, a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound rucksack 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.
details
Drama
1 hr. 55 min.
Opened November 4th, 2005
MovieGoer Review
With hardly any body parts flyin’, no political agenda, no who’s-going-to-die-next tension of any kind, some may be disappointed Jarhead isn’t a typical war movie. But make no mistake, the film is about war--and it’ll still get unde... MORE
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