Director
Brian De Palma
Composer
Ennio Morricone
Cast
Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey
Edition 1995
113'
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1989
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Crime, Action, Drama
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Dialogue:
Vietnamese, English
Eriksson (Michael J. Fox), a young infantryman, arrives in Vietnam and is assigned to a unit filled with veterans. They've been in combat, on and off, for months and Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn) is a shorttimer with less than a month to go before he can return home. On enight Meserve involves his men in a plan to kidnap a young woman, whho will be brought along on a mission to service the sexual needs of all five men. Eriksson refuses to participate in the rape (and murder) and his testimony brings the others eventually to a military court-martial and prison sentences.
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Directors
Brian De Palma
Composers
Ennio Morricone
Cast
Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey
Scenario
Daniel Lang, David Rabe
Director of Photography
Stephen H. Burum
Editors
Bill Pankow
Producers
Art Linson
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Dialogue
Vietnamese, English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"Casualties of War" (Daniel Lang)
Year
1989