Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Synopsis: 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....; Read Full Synopsis

Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood

Director(s): Stanley Kubrick

Distributor(s): Warner Bros.

MPAA Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min.

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USA Today | Mike Clark

A contender for the year's best film.Read the full review

The New York Times | Vincent Canby

Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson Thomson

The most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date... Inspired with technique rather than overblown with it, Kubrick, the filmmaker's filmmaker, lays one on you.Read the full review

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