Full Metal Jacket
Released Date
June 26, 1987
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Budget
$30,000,000
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$46,357,676 + $0 = $46,357,676
$46,357,676 + $0 = $46,357,676
About Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
About
Stanley Kubrick directed film about the dehumanizing nature of the Vietnam War. The film earned Kubrick the Director of the Year award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards in 1988.
Trivia
Kubrick co-wrote the script for the film with Vietnam War veterans Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. Herr's memoir book Dispatches, released in 1977, was used as an inspiration for the film.