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Last Flag Flying is a 2017 American war comedy-drama film directed by Richard Linklater with a screenplay by Linklater and Darryl Ponicsan, based upon the latter's 2005 novel of the same name. It stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne as three Vietnam War veterans who reunite after one of their sons is killed in the Iraq War.
Nov 3, 2017 · Last Flag Flying balances raw drama against refreshing moments of humor in an impeccably cast film that wrestles with questions of patriotism, family, and grief. Read Critics Reviews
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- Richard Linklater
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- Steve Carell
Nov 3, 2017 · Richard Linklater ’s moving “Last Flag Flying,” a quasi-sequel to Hal Ashby ’s “The Last Detail,” is a film built on the deeply humanist career of its filmmaker, one that is about, at its core, what we’re willing to do for one another on our darkest days.
Last Flag Flying. Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Richard Linklater
- 2017-11-03
Nov 2, 2017 · Co-written with Darryl Ponicsan (The Last Detail) and loosely based on Ponicsan's 2005 novel, Last Flag Flying is a flagrantly populist road movie built around three Vietnam veterans...
- Ella Taylor
Nov 1, 2017 · There’s no good answer, and Last Flag Flying doesn’t find one, either. It is a portrait more than a plot, more meditation than message, and though it sometimes slips into pedantry, it’s ...
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Nov 2, 2017 · “Last Flag Flying” often plays less like a tragedy than a low-key comedy in a tragic frame. Doc, Sal and Mueller are a perhaps too-perfectly mismatched set of contrasting styles and attitudes.
