Welcome to the suck.
Jarhead
TMDB
3,331 votes
Trailer
Trailer · plays on YouTube
Where to watch
USStream
- Netflix
- Starz Apple TV channel
Rent
- Amazon Video
- Apple TV Store
- Google Play Movies
- YouTube
- Fandango At Home
Buy
- Amazon Video
- Apple TV Store
- Google Play Movies
- YouTube
- Fandango At Home
Availability data from JustWatch, for the United States.
Synopsis
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
- Directed by
- Sam Mendes
- Written by
- Sam Chouia, Anthony Swofford, William Broyles Jr.
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal
Anthony Swofford
Jamie Foxx
Staff Sgt. Sykes
Peter Sarsgaard
Alan Troy
Scott MacDonald
D.I. Fitch
Chris Cooper
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Laz Alonso
Ramon Escobar
Lucas Black
Kruger
Brian Geraghty
Fergus O'Donnell
Damion Poitier
Poitier
Jocko Sims
Julius
Dennis Haysbert
Major Lincoln
John Krasinski
Corporal Harrigan
Kevin Foster
Branded Marine
Riad Galayini
Nurse
Craig Coyne
Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph
Young Mrs. Swofford
Details
- Released
- November 4, 2005
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Status
- Released
- Language
- EN
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Budget
- $72,000,000
- Box office
- $97,076,152
More by Sam Mendes
More with Jake Gyllenhaal
Prisoners
2013
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Presumed Innocent
2024
Brokeback Mountain
2005
Donnie Darko
2001
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023
Nightcrawler
2014
October Sky
1999
Zodiac
2007
In the Grey
2026
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
Southpaw
2015
Similar films
Full Metal Jacket
1987
The Thin Red Line
1998
Lone Survivor
2013
Unbroken
2014
Black Hawk Down
2001
American Sniper
2014
The Hurt Locker
2008
Warfare
2025
Zero Dark Thirty
2012
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
One Shot
2021
Thank You for Your Service
2017
Mine
2016
G.I. Jane
1997