Full Metal Jacket
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) is an Academy Award-nominated Stanley Kubrick war film based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen. The film portrays the urban Vietnam War fought by the U.S. Marines. In 2005, Full Metal Jacket was placed #5 in Channel 4's The 100 Greatest War Films poll.
A group of new recruits in the United States Marine Corps has just arrived at Parris Island for indoctrination and basic training. Their...
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- Jun 26, 1987
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- In Vietnam The Wind Doesn't Blow It Sucks
- Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care
- Acclaimed by critics as the best war movie ever made
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