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Name: Casualties of War
Released: 1989-8-18
Cast: Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo

Casualties of War

R
1h 59m
1989

84%

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Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, Casualties of War is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Eriksson (Michael J. Fox, TV's Spin City) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking), a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat. With sweeping scope, action and raw power, master filmmaker Brian DePalma (The Untouchables) creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.

Director:

Brian De Palma

Producer:

Fred C. Caruso, Art Linson

Writer:

David Rabe

Cast:

Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

84%

Critics Consensus: Casualties of War takes a harrowing plunge into the Vietnam War with a well-acted ensemble piece that ranks among director Brian De Palma's more mature efforts.

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

Some movies... can leave us feeling simultaneously elated and wiped out. Overwhelmed, we may experience a helpless anger if we hear people mock them or poke holes in them in order to dismiss them. The new Casualties of War has this kind of purity.

September 11, 2023

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Southern Voice (Atlanta)

Terry Francis

This is a great movie.

A grim and sobering work.

Does Vietnam have a geographical place, a national history, a culture, or a political future? Not really, for as we are reassured at the end of Brian De Palma's military slasher film, Casualties of War, Vietnam was after all only a "bad dream."

Casualties of War is the strongest, the simplest and the most painful of all the Vietnam movies because it isn't about how terrible it is not to understand what's going on around us -- it's about the agony of seeing terrible things too clearly.

January 11, 2020

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