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Jarhead, a Universal Pictures presentation in association with MP Kappa Productions ; in association with Neal Street Productions ; Red Wagon Entertainment

eng

videorecording

Rated R. Pervasive language, some violent action and strong sexual content

Jarhead

DVD

62709425

a Universal Pictures presentation in association with MP Kappa Productions ; in association with Neal Street Productions ; Red Wagon Entertainment

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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

general

live action