Details

Release year: 1989

Storyline

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they kidnap a female villager for their sexual enjoyment.

Top credits

Directors

Brian De Palma

Writers

Cast

Michael J. Fox — Eriksson
Sean Penn — Meserve
Don Harvey — Clark
John C. Reilly — Hatcher

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Did you know

• According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, the scene in which Meserve smacks Diaz took fourteen takes, and Sean Penn really smacked him every time.

• The railroad trestle bridge utilized in the firefight near the end of the film (located in Kanchanaburi, Thailand) is part of the Japanese transportation system as portrayed in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). This particular bridge was constructed by prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese when Thailand was under Japanese occupation during World War II.

• For Michael J. Fox's shots, Sean Penn would be telling him that he was just a little television actor and nothing more, to get genuine reactions for director Brian De Palma.