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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also cowrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin .
Jul 10, 1987 · Full Metal Jacket: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey. A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
From boot camp to the battlefield, Stanley Kubrick's classic follows a US Marine and his fellow soldiers as they're trained and sent to fight in Vietnam. Watch trailers & learn more.
Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private ...
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick and was released on June 26, 1987, it's based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the full metal jacket bullet type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen.
Gustav Hasford. Novel, Screenplay. Michael Herr. Screenplay. Written by on October 6, 2020. A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" is more like a book of short stories than a novel. Many of the passages seem self-contained, some of them are masterful and others look like they came out of the bottom drawer.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command ...
Full Metal Jacket (1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jun 26, 1987 · Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket.
