Jarhead

Drama, War

Jake Gyllenhaal	Swoff
Scott MacDonald	D.I. Fitch
Lo Ming	Bored Gunny
Kevin Foster	Branded Marine
Peter Sarsgaard	Troy
Damion Poitier	Poitier
Riad Galayini	Nurse
Craig Coyne	Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph	Young Mrs. Swofford
Rini Bell	Swoff's Sister
Ming Lo
Lucas Black
Chris Cooper
Jamie Foxx
Stellan Skarsgard

Director	Sam Mendes
Producer	Lucy Fisher; Douglas Wick
Writer	William Broyles Jr.; Anthony Swofford; William Broyles, Jr.

Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait. 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.