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

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)

Trailer

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