Full Metal Jacket

Produced in 1987

Film Information

Festival Edition 2012 - Edition 12

Section Focus on Kubrick

Director Stanley Kubrick

Country USA / UK

Duration 116 mins

Language English / Vietnamese

Producer Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford

Cast Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio

Genre War / Drama

Synopsis

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.