Full metal jacket [videorecording DVD] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Stanley Kubrick film ; directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford.
Standard screen format, modified to fit TV screen. Based on the novel The short-timers by Gustav Hasford. Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Special features: Interactive menues ; theatrical trailer ; scene access. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, Ed O'Ross.
Summary:
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
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