Flags of Our Fathers overview
Synopsis:
Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach -- who survived the battle going on a goodwill tour of the United States in order to sell war bonds. Many evening they are forced to reenact their famous pose, something each of them finds more and more difficult to do as they suffer from survivor's guilt. {$Eastwood frames the story by having one of the men's grown son (Tom McCarthy) interview his father's old comrades in order to find out more about what happened to his father.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Studio: Malpaso, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers
- Year: 2006
- Run Time: 132 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for sequences of graphic war violence and carnage, and for language)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama, War
- Filmed in: Color
