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Jarhead

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Plot Summary: 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard
star in Universal Pictures’ "Jarhead", the adaptation of Marine Anthony
Swofford’s bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand
experience in the Gulf War.  "Jarhead" is directed by Academy Award®
winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) and the producers are
Oscar® winner Douglas Wick (Gladiator) and Lucy Fisher (upcoming "Memoirs of a
Geisha"), partners in Red Wagon Entertainment.  The screenplay is by
William Broyles, Jr. (Cast Away, Apollo 13).

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.

Foxx portrays Sergeant
Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while
Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their
elite Marine Unit.

An irreverent and true
account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, "Jarhead" is
laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once
surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.

 

Images & Plot Summary from:
Official Website: 
http://www.jarheadmovie.com/

Apple Trailer: 
Jarhead

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal (Swoff), Jamie Foxx (Staff Sgt. Sykes), Peter Sarsgaard (Troy), Damion Poitier (Poitier), Tyler Sedustine (Harris), Jacob Vargas (Cortez)

Swoff and the other marines get sent to Iraq to fight in a war. As days and days go by, nothing happens and they are left sitting around, goofing off, waiting for something to happen. After 176 days in the desert, things finally start happening for a few days. Swoff gets in trouble and then demoted after trading watch duty with another marine who accidentally sets off flares in the air; they find oil and discover a lot of burnt corpses. Swoff and his spotter Troy are sent to kill a target at a tower, but Major Lincoln (Dennis Haysbert)- a fellow superior officer - interrupts at the last minute and orders his own men to bomb the place instead. Troy is upset because their chance of firing their one and only shot during the war had been taken away. Troy and Swoff head off to get picked up, but nobody does, so they walk back. When they arrive back, they find their fellow marines partying because the war is over. They all grab their rifles and fire shots into the air (their only shots during the war). They all go back home and return to their original lives. When Swoff goes to his girlfriend, Kristina’s (Brianne Davis) house dressed in uniform, another guy answers the door, and he realizes she really did find someone else. He also finds out Troy died. They all go to his funeral. Swoff looks out the window of his home, thinking he and others will always be jarheads.

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