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Casualties of War

Year:

1989

Duration:

113 min | USA:121 min (extended version)

Genres:

Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

Director:

Brian De Palma

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1989-08-18

Filming Locations: Dolores Park, San Francisco, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $22,500,000

Opening Weekend: $5,201,261 (USA) (20 August 1989)

Gross: $18,671,317 (USA)SEK 2,341,696 (Sweden)

Cast

Actor

Character

John Leguizamo

Casualties of War

Michael J. Fox

Eriksson

Sean Penn

Sgt. Tony Meserve

Don Harvey

Cpl. Thomas E. Clark

John C. Reilly

PFC Herbert Hatcher

Thuy Thu Le

Oanh

Erik King

Brown

Jack Gwaltney

Rowan

Ving Rhames

Lt. Reilly

Dan Martin

Sgt. Hawthorne

Dale Dye

Capt. Hill

Steve Larson

Agent #1

John Linton

Agent #2

Vyto Ruginis

Prosecutor

Al Shannon

Wilkins

Wendell Pierce

MacIntire

Sam Robards

Chaplain Kirk

Maris Valainis

Streibig

Darren E. Burrows

Cherry

Sherman Howard

Court Martial President

John Marshall Jones

M.P. (as J.J.)

Holt McCallany

Lt. Kramer

Kady Tran

Yen - Oahn's Sister

Scott Gregory

Soldier Charlie 1

Ennalls Berl

Soldier Charlie 2

Vinh Tran

V.C. Interpreter

Somsak

ARVN Interpreter

Hataya Sarmount

Girl Villager

Ba Thuan T. Le

Oahn's Mother (as Ba Thuan T Le)

Nootch

Child Villager

Kwan

Child Villager

J. Chalerm

Villager Old Man Farmer

Sigma

Villager Woman

Po Powpi

Villager Old Man

Shaun Shea

Soldier

Kristopher Dunn

Soldier

Donal Gibson

Soldier

Shane Kerwin

Soldier

Niran

V.C. in Tunnel

Stephen Baldwin

Soldier (uncredited)

Stefan Ehlers

Sgt. Fuller (uncredited)

Amy Irving

Voice of girl on the train (uncredited)

Michael D. Jones

Passenger on Train (uncredited)

Jonathan MacLeod

Soldier (uncredited)

Vic Noto

Voice (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This is not the first film that has been made about Daniel Lang's 1969 article. In 1970 Brian De Palma was in Berlin when its film festival was closed because German director Michael Verhoeven had sparked controversy with his film O.K. (1970), which depicted the crime that the group of soldiers had committed. De Palma said he has tried to track the film down over the years but has never seen it to this day.

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Brian De Palma chose to utilize segments from Ennio Morricone's score for The Thing (1982) when he laid in his temporary sound track.

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Michael J. Fox would often buy gifts for the snake beaters who would beat the cobras out of the set.

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Goofs

When Ericsson goes to the toilet he is followed by Clark who tries to blow him up with a grenade. The guy who plays Clark is white but you can see that the person who lifts the slide to plant the grenade has a black arm.

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When a soldier steps on a landmine, other soldiers takes a picture of his corpse. Eriksson and one soldier goes to look that corpse which now lies on an opposite side of the road.

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Clark sings a line from the Doors' song, "Hello I Love You", to Oanh while marching. "Hello, I Love You" was originally released as a single in June 1968. However, the events portrayed in the film happened in 1966.

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Quotes

Girl on Bus: You had a bad dream, didn't you?

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Meserve: You're taking your turn.

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Meserve: Even though I walk through the valley of shadow and death, I shall fear no evil. For I'm the meanest motherfucker in the whole fucking valley.

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Faq

What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Extended Version?

The Extended Version features two new scenes that were reintegrated into the movie, making the movie about 6 minutes longer. Whereas the first scene could be found among the Deleted Scenes of the old DVDs the second one is really new: In that court scene a negative side of Eriksson is presented because he could have prevented the rape and the murder, instead he was just a bystander. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.

What year does this movie take place?

The event took place in November, 1966.

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