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  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Full Metal Jacket review by HerrCommissar from Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars A modern classic 4 July 2008
    ...is Island, somewhat overshadows the second half, occurring in Vietnam. However, R. Lee Ermey gives an intense performance as the Gunnery Sergeant, Hartman. This film is not...   Read customer review
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Mississippi Burning review by from DERBYSHIRE
    Rated - 5.0 stars Hackman's finest performance? 15 May 2005
    ...tic scenes ever. The supporting cast - Willem Dafoe is a joy to behold as is R. Lee Ermey as the local Mayor. With career defining performances from Frances Mcdormand, ...   Read customer review

R. Lee Ermey - filmography


  • Solstice on DVD (2007)
    Starring: R. Lee Ermey,  Amanda Seyfried,  Shawn Ashmore
    Director: Daniel Myrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Blair Witch Project writer/director Daniel Myrick draws influence from the 2003 Scandinavian thriller Midsummer to tell this haunting story about a group of high school friends coming together for one last blast before heading off to college, and the strange events that begin to unfold when one ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,062 members
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  • Willard (2003)
    Starring: Crispin Glover,  R. Lee Ermey,  Laura Harring
    Director: Glen Morgan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Glen Morgan's WILLARD stars Crispin Glover in the title role as a socially awkward loner who lives with his ailing mother (Jackie Burroughs) in a decrepit old house. Trapped between duties at home and working at a dreary company formerly owned by his deceased father, Willard leads a bleak and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,812 member
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  • The Wonder Of Sex on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Drew Barrymore,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Brad Renfro
    Director: Tamra Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Young Sam Callahan (Bug Hall) is reaching an age where his curiosity about the opposite sex and his possible interactions with it is reaching a boiling point. As an aspiring writer, he needs this information to give his stories realism. With the help of his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and equally ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 612 members
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  • Life on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ned Bea,  Eddie Murphy,  Martin Lawrence
    Director: Ted Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary. Rayford Gibson (Murphy), an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks (Lawrence), an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,240 members
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  • Life - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Martin Lawrence,  Obba Babatunde
    Director: Ted Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary. Rayford Gibson (Murphy), an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks (Lawrence), an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18 members
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  • Dead Men Can't Dance on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kathleen York,  Adrian Paul,  Michael Biehn
    Director: Steve Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A special military unit ventures into the Demilitarised Zone of Korea to destroy a North Korean nuclear power plant slated to start producing nuclear weapons. Events don't go as planned and so begins a tense struggle to survive.
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 63 members
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  • Prefontaine (1997)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  R. Lee Ermey,  Ed O'Neill
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The true story of Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine who had an extraordinary talent for running despite being born with one leg shorter than the other.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 43 members
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  • Seven - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Morgan Freeman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and lust--these are the seven deadly sins that are being punished with unimaginable cruelty and calculation by an enigmatic killer in David Fincher's bleak thriller SEVEN. Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman)..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 1,632 member
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  • Dead Man Walking on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Sean Penn,  Robert Prosky
    Director: Tim Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been convicted of the rape and murder of two young lovers and is awaiting execution. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 10,988 members
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  • Seven on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Morgan Freeman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 91,412 members
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  • Murder In The First on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Christian Slater,  Kevin Bacon,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Marc Rocco
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The true story of Henri Young, a 1930's convict who has been sent to prison for stealing five dollars. But when Young and others attempt to escape, they are caught. As punishment, a naked and wet Young is thrown into a dark, damp, rat-infested cell, where he is beaten continuously. He emerges from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,007 members
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  • Deathstone on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent,  R. Lee Ermey,  Nancy Everhard
    Director: Andrew Prowse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a mystical Chinese tomb is excavated a series of murders follow; all the victims coming from the same powerful family. When an American Marine is accused of the murders, two buddies come to his rescue to fight the supernatural.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 65 members
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  • Mississippi Burning on DVD (1988)
    Starring: R. Lee Ermey,  Michael Rooker,  Stephen Tobolowsky
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in to investigate. While Ward is young and by the book, Anderson is a seasoned southerner ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 8,470 members
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  • Full Metal Jacket - HD (1987)
    Starring: Matthew Modine,  Adam Baldwin,  Vincent D'Onofrio
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the cold war), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET, adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,152 member
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  • Full Metal Jacket on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Kevyn Major Howard,  Matthew Modine
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the cold war), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET, adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 35,591 members
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  • The Sender on DVD
    Starring: Michael Madsen,  Dyan Cannon,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: Richard Pepin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A psychic father and daughter band together with an Angel to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. Tying together strange occurrences from 1965 with the Bermuda Triangle and government hush-up conspiracies, this suspenseful thriller is like a detective story with extraterrestrials. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 45 members
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R. Lee Ermey facts

5 most recent films

Solstice - 3.0 stars
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning - 3.0 stars
Willard - 3.0 stars
The Wonder Of Sex - 2.5 stars
Life - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Seven - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Simpsons - Season 7 - 4.0 stars
Full Metal Jacket - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Seven - 4.0 stars
Full Metal Jacket - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Sender - 2.0 stars
Prefontaine - 3.0 stars
Life - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dead Men Can't Dance - 2.0 stars
Deathstone - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kevyn Major Howard - 4 times - show films
Arliss Howard - 4 times - show films
Vincent D'Onofrio - 4 times - show films
Dorian Harewood - 4 times - show films
Adam Baldwin - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Susie Dietter - 5 times - show films
David Fincher - 5 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Bill Brown - 5 times - show films
Wesley Archer - 5 times - show films