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Full Metal Jacket (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) (Restored / Remastered)
- Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel -The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life drill instructor whose performance is one of the most terrifyingly realistic on record). Part two takes place in Nam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. Ironically, Full Metal Jacket was filmed almost entirely in England. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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- Genre: Military & War
- Category: Anti-War Film, Combat Films, War Drama
- Theme: Innocence Lost, Military Life
- Release Date: October 23, 2007
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Situations, Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, War Violence
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Lead Actors: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood
- Supporting Actors: Chad Dowdell, Bill Thompson, Dave Perry, Tony Carey, Harry Davies, Steve Hudson, Du Hu Ta, David George, Tony Smith, Robert Nichols, Michael Williams, John Wilson, Derek Hart, Arliss Howard, Kevin Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kirk Taylor, Ian Tyler, Papillon Soo Soo
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 57 min
- Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, Finnish, French, German, Spanish
- Format: Blu-ray
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For his first film since 1980's The Shining, legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick turned his attention to this adaptation of Gustav Hasford's -The Short Timers, creating a harrowing Vietnam War picture that was one of the last of the slew of war films being made in this period in the late 1980s. Full Metal Jacket is widely described as a two-act film, the first being a gripping look at Marine basic training and madness, and the second covering more conventional battleground territory. As with any Kubrick film, though, it has more on its mind than typical war sentiments, as it is a vital addition to his body of work illustrating the poisoning of the human spirit and the cruelty that men are capable of. Shockingly, the film was shot in England (as virtually all of Kubrick's modern films have been), which doubles for both sections of the film quite convincingly. The film had the misfortune of debuting after Oliver Stone's Platoon had just swept the Oscars, and many felt it didn't resonate with the same emotional force as that more straightforward picture. In another bizarre footnote, the film contains a passage of dialogue that found its way into a smash hit for the notoriously lewd rap act 2 Live Crew titled "Me So ******," an odd occurrence given Kubrick's infamously meticulous handling of his films and their content. Jason Clark, All Movie Guide
