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Casualties of War
1989
· Movie
· 113 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1843
- IMDb #2035
- Rotten Tomatoes #1783
- Metacritic #2016
- Letterboxd #1607
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1889
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2169
- Metacritic Critics #1046
- Metacritic Audience #3887
- Criticker #1181
- Kinopoisk #1169
- AlloCiné #1508
- Trakt #1918
Every rating
56–84
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Google on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →During the Vietnam War, a small squad of American soldiers kidnaps a young Vietnamese woman from her village and takes her with them on a patrol. One private is the sole voice of conscience, objecting to the atrocity and trying to stop his fellow soldiers. The film follows the horrific events of the patrol and the private's subsequent struggle for justice against his comrades.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writer
- David Rabe
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 18 August 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Vietnamese
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $22.5M
- Box office
- $18.7M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 5 nominations total
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