“It’s an archetypal journey: A young man goes to war. It’s Holden Caulfield having his rite of passage in the Saudi desert,” producer Doug Wick said of his pic “Jarhead” Thursday at the ArcLight preem ...
"Jarhead," set in 1991 during the first Gulf War, is a kind of lightweight variation on Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," with its evocation of the institution known as the United States Marine ...