Full Metal Jacket
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 117 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1987
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Up next in our Kubrick Christmas series is Full Metal Jacket, the director’s 1987 Vietnam War film!
The movie is divided into two distinct parts: the harrowing boot camp experience, where the recruits endure relentless psychological and physical abuse under the brutal drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), and their subsequent deployment to the chaos of Vietnam. At the center is Private Joker (Matthew Modine), whose transformation from a sardonic recruit to a hardened war correspondent reflects the moral ambiguity and psychological toll of combat.
From the intense, claustrophobic barracks to the surreal devastation of the battlefield, Full Metal Jacket presents a powerful narrative about identity, survival, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.