Search - Full Metal Jacket [Collector's Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, War Violence Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 11/06/2001 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: Creative Design Art Members Wishing: 12 Genres: War, War Drama, Combat Films, Anti-War Film See Also: Full Metal Jacket, Full Metal Jacket [Fullscreen], Full Metal Jacket [Widescreen], Full Metal Jacket [HD DVD], Full Metal Jacket [Blu-ray], Full Metal Jacket, Full Metal Jacket [HD DVD], Full Metal Jacket [Blu-ray], Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel -The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life drill instructor whose performance is one of the most terrifyingly realistic on record). Part two takes place in Nam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. Ironically, Full Metal Jacket was filmed almost entirely in England. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Matthew Modine - Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis
Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother
Vincent D'Onofrio - Leonard Lawrence, Pvt. Gomer Pyle
R. Lee Ermey - Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
Dorian Harewood - Eightball

Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam war drama Full Metal Jacket comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to reproduce the original theatrical aspect ratio. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1. Subtitles are accessible in both of those languages as well. Supplemental materials include a theatrical trailer. This special box set includes the original soundtrack, a commemorative booklet and 35mm film frame. Although this is probably as good a version of Full Metal Jacket as has existed on home video, one is still left wishing for something more. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide