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Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya.
Iwo Jima - Full Cast & Crew. Countless photos, archive footage, historic facts and 5 Iwo Jima veterans have all come together in this authentic account of the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in ...
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By 1979, Texan rodeo star Mike Milo has retired due to a severe back injury. The following year, his former boss Howard Polk, a ranch owner, hires him to travel to Mexico City and bring Howard's 15-year-old son, Rafo, to live with him. He agrees and upon reaching Mexico City, he meets the boy's mother, Leta, who runs several illicit businesses. She...
Eduardo Minett as RafoNatalia Traven as MartaBackground
The novel Cry Macho, which the film adapts, was originally written as a screenplay by author N. Richard Nash. Sometime in the 1970s, 20th Century Fox received the script and rejected it twice. To compensate, he reworked the material, turned it into a novel, and had it published in 1975.It was so well received that Nash decided to pitch the screenplay again, without changing a word, and sold it to a studio. In Hollywood, producer Albert S. Ruddy spent decades trying to adapt the novel into a m...
Development
In October 2020, Warner Bros. Pictures announced Eastwood would produce, direct, and star in an adaptation of the novel. The screenplay included additional contributions by Nick Schenk, who previously worked with Eastwood on Gran Torino (2008) and The Mule (2018). Principal photography began on November 4, 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with cinematographer Ben Davis. Filming moved to Socorro County on November 16 and concluded on November 30. In December, filming took place in Belen, New Me...
The marketing campaign for Cry Macho began on August 5, 2021, when two sets of "first look" images, a theatrical release poster, and a trailer were released. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Eastwood said the film was about a man who "starts his life over again." Based on the promotional material, Empire's James White said the film would be ...
Theatrical and streaming
Cry Macho was theatrically released in the United States on September 17, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures with a simultaneous release on the HBO Max streaming service for 31 days. The film was originally set to premiere on October 22, but was pushed forward as a result of a release date shuffle with Dune and The Many Saints of Newark. The film opened the 2021 Tokyo International Film Festivalon October 30, 2021.
Home media
It was released on digital formats on November 5, 2021, with a physical release on Blu-ray and DVD in addition to a manufacture-on-demand 4K Blu-ray from the Studio Distribution Serviceson December 7, 2021.
Audience viewership
According to Samba TV, which measures its results from a sample of three million households and only counts a view if the film was watched for at least 5 minutes, Cry Macho was streamed on HBO Max in 693,000 households in its first three days, tying with the viewership numbers of In the Heights. Online audiences were generally over the age of 65 and 35% Hispanic.By the end of its first month, the film had been watched in over 1.6 million households in the United States.
Box office
Cry Machogrossed $10.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $6.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $16.5 million. The film received a wide release in 3,967 theaters alongside Copshop on September 17, 2021. Box office analytics from Variety and TheWrap estimated that it would gross between $5–10 million in its opening weekend; Boxoffice Pro predicted a $1–5 million opening and $2–15 million total gross in the United States and Canada. TheWrap's Jeremy Fuster predic...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 178 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Cry Macho proves Clint Eastwood remains an economic filmmaker and charismatic screen presence – albeit one who's an awkward fit for this particular project." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore ga...
Synopsis. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Long-buried missives from the island reveal the stories of the Japanese troops who fought and died there during World War II. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari...
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Flags of Our Fathers: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey. The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
