‘CASUALTIES OF WAR’
Taken from a real-life Vietnam War incident, Brian De Palma’s superb film turns into a battle epic with a screw loose, conveying a sense of moral quagmire, of sinking into dangerous terrain, honeycombed with tunnels and traps, all hell exploding around it. Michael J. Fox (right), never better, is the Minnesota farm boy who resists a gang rape planned by a macho sergeant (Sean Penn, left, who bursts the bounds of his role with a gargoyle intensity). TMC Saturday at 7 p.m., again at 2 a.m.; HBO at 9 p.m.)
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