I saw this when it came out because it stars Ryan Phillippe and Jesse Bradford. I like them and think they're good, but I wonder if it would have done better if the casting catered less to my demographic.
Flags of Our Fathers
A single shot can end the war.
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
10/19/2006Runtime
135 minsOverview
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$90,000,000Revenue
$65,900,249Homepage
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How It Feels
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Clint Eastwood splits his lens between the chaos of Iwo Jima's brutal combat and the psychological toll of becoming symbols of American heroism, examining how war breaks men and fame fails to heal them. The film is a somber reckoning with the gap between the myth of victory and the human cost of survival.
Mood
MelancholicTenseMournfulContemplative
Themes
WarMortalityMemoryIdentityComing apart
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHandheldHigh-contrast
Structure
Nonlinear
Heads up
Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harm
Ryan Phillippe
John 'Doc' Bradley
Jesse Bradford
Rene Gagnon
Adam Beach
Ira Hayes
John Benjamin Hickey
Keyes Beech
John Slattery
Bud Gerber
Barry Pepper
Mike Strank
Jamie Bell
Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
Paul Walker
Hank Hansen
Robert Patrick
Colonel Chandler Johnson
Neal McDonough
Captain Severance
Melanie Lynskey
Pauline Harnois
Tom McCarthy
James Bradley
Reviews
Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Collection
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