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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.
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Nov 1, 2017 · History repeats itself, and Last Flag Flying is about the comedy and tragedy of that repetition. A so-called “spiritual sequel” to Hal Ashby’s 1973 film The Last Detail, Richard...
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 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.
- Richard Linklater
Nov 1, 2017 · It sounds like a sorrowful yet likely turn of events, but is Last Flag Flying a true story? In actuality, the movie, directed by Richard Linklater, is based on a fictional novel, so it's...
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Nov 3, 2017 · Advertisement. Larry ‘Doc’ Shepherd ( Steve Carell) has had an absolutely horrific year. His wife recently passed of cancer, and he just received news that his son, Larry Jr., died in combat in Iraq—the film takes place in late 2003 (we see Saddam Hussein’s capture on TV screens).
Nov 3, 2017 · 99+ Photos. Comedy Drama War. 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. Director. Richard Linklater.
Dec 3, 2017 · Although this story of grief and loss is melancholy, it’s not morose. It’s also a deeply affecting story of friendship, a complex assimilation of comedy and tragedy.
