Casualties of War | |
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Directed by | Brian De Palma |
Screenplay by | David Rabe |
Story by | Daniel Lang |
Produced by | Art Linson |
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Cinematography | Stephen H. Burum |
Edited by | Bill Pankow |
Music by | Ennio Morricone |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $22.5 million[1] |
Box office | $18.7 million[2] |
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.[3] 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 a Vietnamese woman was kidnapped from her village by a squad of American soldiers, who raped and murdered her. For the film, all names and some details of the true story were altered.