Full Metal Jacket

About Full Metal Jacket

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Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film. Its themes are military, rescue, jungle, and army.

Matthew Modine appears as Pvt. Joker, Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother, Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle, and R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman. It runs 117 minutes and was released in June 1987.

The screenplay is by Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr. It was produced by Natant, Stanley Kubrick Productions, and Warner Bros. Pictures. The film began as a novel. It streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and HBO Max in the United States.

Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and We Were Soldiers make useful companions to Full Metal Jacket, all filed under anti war, combat, and critical. TMDB voters put it at 8.1 out of 10 across 11,905 votes and it carries a R rating.