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Jarhead/Born on the Fourth of July

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Number of Discs
1

Release Date
18/09/2006

Studio
Universal Pictures

format
DVD / Normal

Duration
261

Certificate UK
15

Description

A double bill of memoir-based war films. 'Jarhead' is an adaptation of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed 'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the Persian Gulf to take part in a war that saw them required to do very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of humour as they wait for the war to happen to them. Whilst in 'Born on the Fourth of July' Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) is brought up in the God-fearing All-American tradition, and as such is perfect material to fight for the US cause in Vietnam. However, nothing could prepare the young Marine for the horrors of the frontline and he returns home wounded, paralyzed from chest down. Embittered, Kovic goes into a self-destructive downward spiral, until he finds new direction by joining the anti-war movement. Based on true events, as chronicled in Kovic's book.

Director: Sam Mendes
Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Lucy Fisher
Producer: Douglas Wick
Producer: A. Kitman Ho
Writer: William Broyles
Producer: Oliver Stone
Music: Thomas Newman
Writer: Oliver Stone
Writer: Ron Kovic
Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor: Tom Cruise
Actor: Scott MacDonald
Music: John Williams
Actor: Lo Ming
Actor: Willem Dafoe
Actor: Raymond J. Barry
Actor: Caroline Kava
Actor: Kyra Sedgwick
Actor: Stephen Baldwin
Subject: Ron Kovic
Actor: Kevin Foster
Actor: Peter Sarsgaard
Actor: Tom Berenger
Actor: Damion Poitier
Actor: Josh Evans
Actor: Riad Galayini
Actor: William Baldwin
Actor: Craig Coyne
Actor: John Getz
Actor: Abbie Hoffman
Actor: Bryan Larkin
Actor: Katherine Randolph
Actor: Jerry Levine
Actor: Rini Bell
Actor: Frank Whaley

Main Format
DVD

Keyword Index
Jarhead/Born on the Fourth of July|Jake Gyllenhaal

Colour
Colour

Catalogue Number
8245626

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