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- Release date: August 18, 1989 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Director: Brian De Palma http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Writer: David Rabe (screenplay) and Daniel Lang (book) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Editor: Bill Pankow http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Production company: Columbia Pictures Corporation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Running time: 113 minutes,121 minutes (extended version) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- MPAA rating: R http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
- Genre: Drama, Adventure, War http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/
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Casualties of War is a 1989 war film directed by WGA Award-winning director Brian De Palma. The film was written by David Rabe, based upon the book by Daniel Lang of the same name. The movie stars Michael J. Fox as Eriksson, a soldier stationed in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He is determined to bring his fellow squadron members to justice after they do horrible things to a young Vietnamese girl.
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Plot Synopsis
Casualties of War tells the story of Eriksson, played by Michael J. Fox, and Sgt. Tony Meserve (played by Sean Penn), who are two soldiers in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Meserve orders his men to invade a small village and retrieve a Vietnamese girl (Thuy Thu Lee), who is later bounded, gagged and gang-raped by the soldiers, except Eriksson. Horrified and disgusted by the incident, Eriksson tries to bring his fellow squadron members to justice. -
Cast
- Michael J. Fox as PFC. Eriksson
- Sean Penn as Sgt. Tony Meserve
- Don Harvey as Cpl. Thomas E. Clark
- John C. Reilly as PFC. Herbert Hatcher
- John Leguizamo as PFC. Antonio Diaz
- Thuy Thu Le as Tran Thi Oanh / Girl on Train
- Erik King as Cpl. Brown
- Jack Gwaltney as PFC. Rowan
- Ving Rhames as Lt. Reilly
- Dan Martin as Hawthorne
- Dale Dye Capt. Hill
- Vyto Ruginis as Prosecutor
- Al Shannon as Wilkins
- Wendell Pierce as MacIntire
- Sam Robards as Chaplain Kirk
- Darren E. Burrows as Cherry
- Sherman Howard as Court Martial President
- John Marshall Jones as MP (as J.J.)
- Holt McCallany as Lt. Kramer
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Reviews
"A powerful metaphor of the national shame that was America's orgy of destruction in Vietnam, Brian De Palma's film deals directly with the harrowing rape and murder of a Vietnamese woman by four GIs."—Variety Staff, Variety Magazine http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789773.html?categoryid=31&cs=1"Casualties Of War is one of those films where one performance brings down the entire exercise."—Jamie Giles, Apollo Movie Guide http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3737
"...De Palma steers a steady course through a war that continues to divide a nation. This is a portrait of hell so harrowing it's impossible to shake."—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947383/review/5947384/casualties_of_war
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