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- It’s that graceful humanity that keeps Last Flag Flying from descending into melodrama. It dips a few too many times to stand with the filmmaker’s best work, and a few asides into “wacky old person behavior” are regrettable, but this is another solid dramedy from one of our best working filmmakers.
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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.
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.
- (29K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Richard Linklater
- 2017-11-03
Nov 3, 2017 · Jesse and Celine in the “Before” films; the kids of “ Dazed and Confused ” and “Everybody Wants Some!!”; everyone in “ Boyhood ”—Linklater’s affection for the people he presents is palpable, and it’s that graceful humanity that keeps “Last Flag Flying” from descending into melodrama.
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
- R
- Steve Carell
Nov 3, 2017 · Written by Darryl Ponicsan as a sort of spiritual follow-up to his 1973 New Hollywood classic The Last Detail (which starred Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, and Otis Young), Last Flag Flying is...
- 59 sec
Nov 3, 2017 · It’s that graceful humanity that keeps Last Flag Flying from descending into melodrama. It dips a few too many times to stand with the filmmaker’s best work, and a few asides into “wacky old person behavior” are regrettable, but this is another solid dramedy from one of our best working filmmakers.
Last Flag Flying is a comedy-drama film directed by Richard Linklater (Boyhood, School of Rock) and based on the novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan.
