Jarhead Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

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

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Jarhead.

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  Jake Gyllenhaal

  The Day After Tomorrow, The Bride!

• 
  Peter Sarsgaard

  September 5, The Bride!

• 
  Jamie Foxx

  Back In Action, Django Unchained

• L
  Lucas Black

  Unsung Hero, Legion

• L
  Laz Alonso

  Detained , Wrath of Man

• B
  Brian Geraghty

  10 Years, Open House

• D
  Dennis Haysbert

  Major League 4, Summer Camp

• 
  Chris Cooper

  The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Muppets

• J
  Jacob Vargas

  KIMI, Cesar Chavez

• E
  Evan Jones

  Shot Caller, The Book of Eli

Crew Behind the Film

The Jarhead behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Sam Mendes last directed Empire of Light and 1917. The film's writer William Broyles last wrote The Polar Express and Shadow Divers.

Director

Sam Mendes

Screenwriters

William Broyles
Anthony Swofford

Producers

Lucy Fisher
Doug Wick

Production Details

What we know about the Jarhead movie production.

Key Facts

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

Production Updates for Jarhead

Dec 2004

Completed

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