Director Sam Mendes Producer Lucy Fisher, Sam Mendes, Douglas Wick Screenwriter William Broyles, Jr., Anthony Swofford [novel]
Studio Universal Pictures StarringJake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper Genre Drama, Action MPAA Rating TBA
"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.
