Jarhead /
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 po...
| Uniform Title: | Jarhead. |
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| Corporate Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English French Spanish |
| Language Notes: | English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Sound tracks: English, French, and Spanish, with optional subtitles in French and Spanish. Not all special features subtitled. |
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Universal City, CA :
Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
[2006]
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| Edition: | Widescreen. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Based on the book by Anthony Swofford. Dual layer. Aspect ratio 2.35:1 (anamorphic widescreen). Special features: Swoff's fantasies -- News interviews in full with optional commentary by director Sam Mendes and editor Walter Murch -- Deleted scenes -- Commentaries. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (2 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital 5.1. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: R. Special features not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Walter Murch ; music by Thomas Newman. |
| ISBN: | 1417051442 |