Jarhead
by
Mendes, Sam.
Title
:
Jarhead
Author
:
Mendes, Sam.
Uniform Title
:
Jarhead (Motion picture)
Publication Information
:
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]
Physical Description
:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note
:
Based on the book by Anthony Swofford.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: feature commentary with Sam Mendes or William Broyles, Jr. and Anthony Swofford; deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Sam Mendes and Walter Murch; "Jarhead" interviews, with optional commentary by Sam Mendes and Walter Murch.
Abstract
:
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.
Reading Level
:
MPAA rating: R; for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.
Personal Subject
:
Swofford, Anthony-Film adaptations.
Corporate Subject
:
United States. Marine Corps -- Drama.
Subject Term
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Drama.
Soldiers -- United States -- Drama.
Genre
:
War films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author
:
Mendes, Sam.
Broyles, William.
Wick, Douglas.
Fisher, Lucy.
Gyllenhaal, Jake, 1980-
MacDonald, Scott.
Sarsgaard, Peter.
Foxx, Jamie.
Vargas, Jacob.
Black, Lucas, 1982-
Geraghty, Brian.
Cooper, Chris, 1951-
Deakins, Roger A., 1949-
Newman, Thomas, 1955-
Swofford, Anthony. Jarhead.
Added Corporate Author
:
Universal Pictures (Firm)
MP Kappa Productions.
Neal Street Productions.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | DVD Movie | 0020216 | PN1995.9.W3 J37 2006 DVD | Multimedia Koleksiyon |