Action scene from the flick 'Jarhead'. - CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
ACADEMY AWARD winner Jamie Foxx heads the cast starring in the drama flick Jarhead, (the self-imposed nickname of the Marines), an irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago.
The film follows 'Swoff' (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts, with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon.
'Swoff' and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.
FOXX'S ROLE
Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, and Peter Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
Jarhead, which also stars Lucas Black, Academy Award winner Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert and Rini Bell, was directed by Sam Mendes from screenplay by William Broyles, Jr.
