Last Flag Flying

Director Richard Linklater
Year 2017
Country USA
Runtime 2h 5m
Language English
Format DCP
TMDB View entry
Synopsis

In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with former Marines Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo a burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives. Director Richard Linklater and author Darryl Ponicsan collaborated on the screenplay which follows the trio as they wrestle with the pangs of war both past and present.

Listed at AFS

Archived on the AFS site between Sat, Dec 4 2021 and Tue, Dec 16 2025, across 5 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.

Sat, Dec 4 2021 Sun, Jun 26 2022 Sat, Mar 2 2024 Wed, Nov 6 2024 Tue, Dec 16 2025