Full Metal Jacket

The film follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their brutal boot campŒ training and thenŒ into battleŒ during the VietnamŒ war. Full MetalŒ JacketŒ stars Matthew Modine as Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Men in Black) as Pvt. Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence, R. Lee Ermey (Se7en and Toy Story) as Gny. Sgt. Hartman, Arliss Howard asŒ Pvt. CowboyŒ and Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother. This fantastic war film was produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick who also wrote, producer and directed other fantastic movies such as A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining.Œ Stanley Kubrick must go down in history as one of the greatest and most influential directors ever.Œ Full Metal Jacket is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, andŒ the films title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by infantry riflemen just in case you wanted to know.