Jarhead
October 6, 2010Jarhead
Call Number: THFM2900_F10_11
by Sam Mendes; William Broyles; Douglas Wick; Lucy Fisher; Jake Gyllenhaal; Scott MacDonald; Peter Sarsgaard; Jamie Foxx; Jacob Vargas; Lucas Black; Brian Geraghty; Chris Cooper; Roger A Deakins; Thomas Newman; Anthony Swofford; Universal Pictures (Firm); Neal Street Productions.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]
Notes: Originally aired in 2005 (123 min.); Based on the book by Anthony Swofford;
Summary: Follows “Swoff,” a third-generation Marine 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 the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are 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 understand. Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer, heads up the scout/sniper platoon, while Troy, Swoff’s friend and mentor, is a die-hard member of STA – the elite Marine Unit.
OCLC #: 62709425
Added: October 6, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
