Casualties of War (Extended Cut)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 25, 2006
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sean Penn & Michael J. Fox | |
Performer: | John Leguizamo, Ving Rhames, John C. Reilly, Don Harvey, Dale Dye, Jack Gwaltney & Thuy Thy Le | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Bill Pankow | |
Screenwriting by | David Rabe | |
Composition by | Ennio Morricone | |
Produced by | Art Linson | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen H. Burum |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is a breakthrough work, a signal of an artist's blossoming maturity, and one of the most punishing, morally complex movies about men at war ever made.
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Washington Post
...A superb film. DePalma may have found here the perfect arena for his darkly voluptuous expertise...
Los Angeles Times
...A portrait of hell so harrowing it's impossible to shake....De Palma's merciless vision is unblinking...
Rolling Stone
[The film] manages to churn out an effective moral conflict...
Total Film
There's a moral charge to the action, but it's also swooningly exciting, coldly scary. Every friend may be an enemy, every innocent a traitor.
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Los Angeles Times
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.
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Sight and Sound
Mr. Penn plays Meserve with terrific elan. There is plausibility in every movement and gesture, and especially in his crafty handsomeness. His Meserve is the sort of man one credits with thoughts when the mind may, in fact, be completely blank.
New York Times
Product Description:
After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the woman splits the patrol into two factions, those for it, and those against it--with young Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) leading the dissension. But before long, the sergeant has convinced everyone but Eriksson to go along with the plan, making an already difficult mission unbearable for the morally conscious young soldier. Penn gives a powerful performance in this brutal, thoughtful war film from a script by playwright David Rabe (HURLYBURLY).
Keywords:
Battered Women
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True Story
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Vietnam
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War
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Betrayal
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Self-Discovery
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Rape
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Military
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Casualties of War
Movie Lover: BobbyReno from
SAN LEANDRO, CA US -- November, 6, 2012
Outstanding movie Michael J. Fox played an excellent role. Everyone should see this movie regardless if you like war films or not. This movie will show the good and also the bad in people and should leave a person with a lasting impact.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 128,915
- UPC: 043396137271
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