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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

1987	Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Michael Herr
1987	Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Gustav Hasford
1987	Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Stanley Kubrick

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