Casualties of War (1989)
- Directed by
- Brian De Palma
- Genre
- drama film, war film, trial film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 1,021 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A squad of American soldiers kidnap, rape, and murder a young Vietnamese woman during the Vietnam War. One soldier in the squad tries to bring the others to justice for their crimes.
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What happens
Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe, based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, which was later published as a book. The film stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn and is based on the events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam War, in which Pan Thi Mao, a Vietnamese woman, was kidnapped from her village, raped and murdered by a squad of American soldiers. All names and some details of the true story were altered for the film. Casualties of War was released by Columbia Pictures on August 18, 1989. The film received positive reviews from critics but underperformed at the box office, grossing $18.7 million against a $22.5 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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