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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 .
Last Flag Flying: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell, J. Quinton Johnson. 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 ...
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Richard Linklater
- 2017-11-03
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.
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In 2003, Larry "Doc" Shepherd visits the bar of Sal Nealon, a former Marine that he served with in Vietnam. Sal willingly joins Doc on an impromptu drive where Doc reveals that he's also tracked down another friend from Vietnam, now-Reverend Richard Mueller. Sal and Doc are invited to dinner with the Muellers, where Doc reveals he is recently widow...
J. Quinton Johnsonas Charlie WashingtonOn review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 78% based on 210 reviews, with an average rating of 7.08/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Last Flag Flyingbalances raw drama against refreshing moments of humor in an impeccably cast film that wrestles with questions of patriotism, family, and grief." On Metacritic...
It had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 28, 2017. It was scheduled to be released on November 17, 2017, but was moved forward two weeks, to November 3, when Lionsgate was announced to co-distribute the film alongside Amazon Studios.
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq.
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.
Nov 11, 2017 · In “Last Flag Flying,” Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne play old friends who come together in the face of tragedy. When Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Carell) learns his son was...
