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A third-generation U.S. Marine and his cohorts sustain themselves with comedy and camaraderie in the blazing desert of Iraq and Kuwait. Based on the memoirs of Anthony Swofford's disorienting firsthand experience during the Gulf War, the "jarheads" cope with a country they don't understand, an enemy they can't see and a cause they don't fully fathom.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper
Run time: 115 minutes
Release date: Nov. 4, 2005
Rating: R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"... a world of gas masks that don't work and anticipated battles that never happen. At its best, Jarhead gets at the isolation that makes men paranoid, especially about what wives and girlfriends are doing back home."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"In the absence of forward movement or deep meanings, the movie does for us what the Marines are doing for themselves: It finds diversion in the moment."
The Palm Beach Post: C+
"Director Sam Mendes certainly delivers surreal images and chaotic action, but for the man who gave us a new look at the underbelly of suburbia (American Beauty) and humanized the life of a Depression-era assassin (The Road to Perdition), Jarhead represents a less involving and less original vision."
