Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket.

Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming Hell of Marine boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a soldier to the Hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war.

CAST AND CREW

Matthew Modine R. Lee Ermey Vincent D'Onofrio Ed O'Ross Kevyn Major Howard Stanley Kubrick

GENRE

Action, Drama

CERTIFICATE

Suitable only for 15 years and over.

RUN TIME

1 hour 56 minutes

RELEASED

1987