Full Metal Jacket

Action, Thriller, War

Vincent D'Onofrio	Pvt. Pyle/Leonard Lawrence
Arliss Howard	Pvt. Cowboy
Ed O'Ross
Matthew Modine	Pvt. Joker
Adam Baldwin	Animal Mother
R. Lee Ermey
Dorian Harewood	Eightball
Kevyn Major Howard
Bruce Boa	Poge Colonel
Tim Colceri	Doorgunner
Peter Edmund	Snowball
Kieron Jecchinis	Crazy Earl
Gary Landon Mills	Donlon

Director	Stanley Kubrick
Producer	Stanley Kubrick; Michael Herr
Writer	Stanley Kubrick; Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr
Cinematography	Douglas Milsome
Musician	Vivian Kubrick

A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy and more - all are plunged into a boot-camp hell pitbulled by a leatherlung D.I. (Lee Ermey) who views the would-be devil dogs as grunts, maggots or something less.

The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humor. Full Metal Jacket, from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.