Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 …

Jul 10, 1987 · Reviewers say 'Full Metal Jacket' is acclaimed for its dark humor, intense realism, and critical war commentary. Divided into boot camp and Vietnam combat segments, it …

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We’ve been here before, in other war movies, and we keep waiting for Kubrick to spring a surprise, but he never does. The opening passages of “Full Metal Jacket” promise much more …

Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 anti-war film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on The Short-Timers, a 1979 semi-autobiographical book by Gustav Hasford.

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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 …

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.

These young men, drawn from the fabric of America, had arrived to become Marines—soldiers shaped for the brutality of the Vietnam War. Among them stood J.T. Davis, a wiry, sharp-witted …

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