 Jarhead
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Screenplay: William Broyles, Jr.
Release Date: November 4 2005
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.
Studio: Universal Pictures
 Domestic: $62,658,220 (64.7%)
Foreign: $34,231,778 (35.3%)
Total: $96,889,998 (Worldwide)
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In the summer of 1990, Anthony Swofford, a 20-year-old third-generation enlistee, got sent to the deserts of Saudi Arabia to fight in the first Gulf War.
In 2003, his memories of that time in that place became the best-selling book Jarhead. Swofford wrote with the urgency, immediacy, honesty and humor that could only come from someone who had lived through the experience itself.
Swofford's book spent nine weeks on The New York Times list of best sellers and was hailed in that same publication as “some kind of classic… a bracing memoir of the 1991 Persian Gulf War that will go down with the best books ever written about military life. A wild passage familiar to millions of young men but rarely so well revealed.
The Times' Michiko Kakutani noted that Jarhead was “an irreverent but meditative voice that captures both the juiced-up machismo of jarhead culture and the existential loneliness of combat. He makes us understand the exacting and deadly art practiced by a sniper… the rhythm of boredom and terror of preparing for an enemy attack and the terrible physical and psychological costs of combat and the emotional bonds shared by the soldiers.”
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