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Jarhead / directed by Sam Mendes ; screenplay by William D. Broyles, Jr. ; produced by Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher ; a Universal Pictures presentation in association with MP Kappa Productions ; a Lucy Fisher/Douglas Wick production in association with Neal Street Productions.
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.W3 J37443 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Swofford, Anthony--Film adaptations.
- Swofford, Anthony.
- United States. Marine Corps--Drama.
- United States.
- Persian Gulf War, 1991--Drama.
- Persian Gulf War, 1991.
- Soldiers--United States--Drama.
- Soldiers.
- War--Feature.
- United States--Drama.
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- United States.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Drama
- Feature films
- Film adaptations
- Films for the hearing impaired
- War films
- Feature films.
- War films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Film adaptations.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue; optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; dual layer; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Jacob Vargas, Lucas Black, Brian Geraghty, Chris Cooper.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; art directors, Stefan Dechant, Christina Wilson ; editor, Walter Murch ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Albert Wolskey ; production designer, Dennis Gassner ; visual effects supervisor, Pablo Helman.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
- Based on the book by Anthony Swofford.
- Widescreen 2.35:1.
- Special features: Swoff's fantasies; news interviews in full with optional commentary by director Mendes and editor Murch; deleted scenes; commentary with director Mendes; commentary with screenwriter Broyles, Jr. and author Swofford.
- Contains:
- Container of: Jarhead (Motion picture)
- Container of: Jarhead (Motion picture). French.
- Container of: Jarhead (Motion picture). Spanish.
- ISBN:
- 1417051442
- 9781417051441
- 1417051507
- 9781417051502
- 1417051450
- 9781417051458
- OCLC:
- 62709425
- Publisher Number:
- 025192784224
- 025192784729
- 27842 Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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