Hoorah," says an oil-soaked Jamie Foxx in Sam Mendes' new epic war film "Jarhead." ... Kristina. At first she is the driving force behind Swoff’s need for survival.

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Named after the slang term for a U.S. Marine, "Jarhead," which opens this weekend, goes behind the lines to give audiences a glimpse of life in the armed forces overseas.

Instead, “Jarhead" is a fitfully engaging portrait of the boredom of war, a “Full Metal Jacket" for Generation Xers who feel cheated by the currents of history.

Whatever else you may want to say about the film version of Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir, "Jarhead," it certainly makes for an unusual war movie -- maybe the only one in which the hero sees ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is ...

“Jarhead,” based on Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, is not so much about war as about waiting for war, and about the impact that waiting has on a not-yet-formed young man.

Waiting is what Jarhead is all about. When the colonel warns that “the bureaucrats have a lot of jawboning to do,” I was transported back to my own vigil in the Kuwaiti desert in the early ...

Besides just being one more war film, “Jarhead" has made an attempt to separate itself from its predecessors. While almost every other film about war has been either a rousing action flick that ...

“Jarhead” by Anthony Swofford In this self-lacerating memoir, an ex-Marine sniper who fought in the Gulf yearns to escape from the myths of warfare and the sadism of military life.

Jarhead Anthony Swofford was a Marine sniper in the first Gulf War. His no-holds-barred memoir, Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, ...