The actor, who played Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick ’s 1987 Vietnam war film, locked heads with Private “Pyle” actor D’Onofrio while filming the famous boot-camp scenes.

Few films capture the spirit of Marine Corps boot camp better than Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War drama, Full Metal Jacket.

However, chance proved to multiply in the case of Full Metal Jacket. Matthew Modine ran into Vincent D'Onofrio when the latter worked as a doorman for The Hard Rock Cafe, and urged him to audition ...

But in Full Metal Jacket, one of the film’s most unforgettable sequences - the boot camp barrage of insults hurled by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman - came not from a polished script, but from a real ...

The Donald Trump presidential campaign's use of clips from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Oscar-nominated Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket has polarized those close to the pic indeed, with the late ...

Roger Ebert's views on Full Metal Jacket were certainly the minority opinion of the movie, as it scored 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Among those critics who praised the film was Ebert's co-host on At ...

Vincent D'Onofrio is a remarkably physical, remarkably versatile actor. He played Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. For ten years, he starred as detective Robert Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Hailed as one of the best films of all time, Full Metal Jacket explores the brutal boot camp training that US Marine recruits went through before being shipped off to war and the dehumanizing ...