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Full Metal Jacket
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R,1hr 56min
Genres:
War,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1987
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination. Full Review
Metascore
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78
Generally favorable reviews
out of 100
Based on 18 critic reviews
Featured Cast
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Matthew Modine
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis
Adam Baldwin
Animal Mother
Vincent D'Onofrio
Leonard Lawrence, Pvt. Gomer Pyle
R. Lee Ermey
Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
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