Description
Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War film. It follows a group of Marine recruits from the brutal rigors of boot camp under a relentless drill instructor to the chaos of combat in Hue City. The film stars Matthew Modine as Joker, Vincent D'Onofrio as Gomer Pyle, Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother and Lee Ermey as the drill instructor. The screenplay is by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford, based on Hasford's novel The Short-Timers. This is the Warner Home Video VHS release from the Stanley Kubrick Collection line, with 1999 package design, in a cardboard slipcase sleeve. It is NTSC format, rated R and runs 116 minutes in color. It is closed captioned and includes the original theatrical trailer before the movie.