3 Movies Starring R. Lee Ermey

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-07-10

Languages:

English, Vietnamese

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (430145 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Gustav Hasford (novel)

Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)

Michael Herr (screenplay)

Gustav Hasford (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

The Rift

The Rift

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-07-26

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

Spain, USA

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.3 (737 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Juan Piquer Simèn (story)

Mark Klein (story)

David Coleman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I", mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

Willard

Willard

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (14747 Reviews)

Director:

Glen Morgan

Cast:

Writer:

Glen Morgan (screenplay)

Gilbert Ralston

Stephen Gilbert (book)

Fullplot:

This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard then finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Mr. Frank Martin, a vicious man whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one.

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