June 28: Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket
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Full Metal Jacket
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. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit–from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Michael Herr & Gustav Hasford based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
- Starring
- Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, Ed O'Ross
- Year
- 1987
- Rated
- R
- Country
- UK/USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 116 minutes