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Full Metal Jacket(Movie, 1987)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Genres: Drama, War
Full Metal JacketRating: 4.1/5 (with 48934,893 votes)
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Adam Baldwin. The storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training in Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, primarily focusing in the first half of the film on privates J.T. Davis and Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed "Joker" and "Pyle", who struggle under their abusive drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half portrays the experiences of Joker and other Marines in the Vietnamese cities of Da Nang and Huế during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by milita... ()
Movie poster of Full Metal Jacket

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Available languages: German, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 56min
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Duration: 1h 57min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: German, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 56min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 1h 57min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

Awards & Nominations for Full Metal Jacket

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor David di Donatello for Best Producer National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About Full Metal Jacket

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Trailer for Full Metal Jacket + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Additional Information

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Plays in: South Carolina
Based on the work of: Gustav Hasford ("The Short-Timers")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Vietnamese (VI)
Translated into 36 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/08/1987 (World premiere: 06/26/1987)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La chaqueta metálica"
"Metal Jacket"
"フルメタル・ジャケット"
"フルメタル・ジャケット:1987"
"Pelny magazynek"
"Olovni kovčeg"
"Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket"

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