Plot synopsis: From director Stanley Kubrick, 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.

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 Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on the novel "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford.



directed by Stanley Kubrick

starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, John Terry, Bruce Boa

release date September 22, 2020 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray)