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Casualties of War

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Released: 2001-12-11

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Casualties of War DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Ennalls Berl, Brian De Palma, Woody Harrelson, Sherman Howard, J.J., John Linton, Dan Martin, Holt McCallany, Wendell Pierce, Vyto Ruginis, Al Shannon, Kady Tran, Marius Valainis, J. Chalerm, Kristopher Dunn, Scott Gregory, Hataya Sarmount, Shane Kerwin, Kwan, Niran, Nootch, Po Powpi, Shaun Shea, Sigma, Somsak, Vinh Tran, Donal Gibson, Steve Larson, Art Linson, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Thuy Thu Le, Erik King, Jack Gwaltney, Ving Rhames, Dale Dye, Sam Robards, Darren E. Burrows, Ba Thuan T. Le

Director(s): Brian De Palma

Features:
Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video
Widescreen presentation
Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital and 2-channel Dolby Surround, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Eriksson's war: A conversation with Michael J. Fox
Theatrical trailer
The making of "Casualties of War"
Production notes
Deleted scenes
Interactive menus
Scene selection
Casualties of War DVD Details
Video:
Cinemascope
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels of sound from a 2-channel stereo mix.
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, ko, th
Running Time: 114
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 043396062924
Product Code: CTR6292DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1989
Studio: Sony Pictures
Casualties of War DVD Summary Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang.

This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience.

Michael J.

Fox
plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Asia.

Sean Penn co-stars as Meserve, the squadron sergeant, who vows revenge after his best friend is killed.

He orders his men to invade a village and "requisition" a young Vietnamese girl (Thuy Thu Lee), who is repeatedly tied, gagged and gang-raped.

The horrified Eriksson refuses to participate in these atrocities, and he does his best to console the girl and to attempt to free her.

Before this can happen, however, Meserve orders another man to kill the girl.

Once he returns to camp, Eriksson attempts to file a report on the tragedy and to bring Meserve and the others to justice, but he is stonewalled by the brass and threatened with death by his fellow soldiers.

Eventually Meserve and his co-conspirators are jailed for their crimes, but Eriksson can never forget his "compliance" in the incident by failing to save the girl.

The script is by well-known playwright David Rabe.