Jarhead Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

"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.

Action Adventure Drama War

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  Jake Gyllenhaal

  The Bride!, Remain

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  Peter Sarsgaard

  The Bride!, The Batman

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  Jamie Foxx

  Back In Action, Tin Soldier

• L
  Lucas Black

  Legion, The Fate of the Furious

• L
  Laz Alonso

  Wrath of Man, Detained

• B
  Brian Geraghty

  The Luckiest Man in America, The Hurt Locker

• D
  Dennis Haysbert

  Send Help, No Exit

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  Chris Cooper

  Remember Me, The History of Sound

• J
  Jacob Vargas

  Heaven Is For Real, KIMI

• E
  Evan Jones

  Shot Caller, The Book of Eli

Who is making Jarhead – Crew List

A look at Jarhead behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Sam Mendes last helmed Empire of Light and 1917. The film's writer William Broyles last penned The Polar Express and Shadow Divers.

Director

Sam Mendes

Screenwriters

William Broyles
Anthony Swofford

Producers

Lucy Fisher
Doug Wick

Production – What we know about the Jarhead

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Key Facts

• The adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Dec 2004

Completed

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