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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

R 135 minutes EN War , Drama , History

A single shot can end the war.

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.

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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

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Clint Eastwood

Original Music Composer

Tom Stern

Director of Photography

Deborah Hopper

Costume Design

Carol A. O'Connell

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Henry Bumstead

Production Design

Joe Dorn

ADR & Dubbing

Charles Maynes

Sound Effects Editor

Tania McComas

Makeup Department Head

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A nicely crafted war film.
I wasn't overly invested in what was happening onscreen, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I still found 'Flags of Our Fathers' to be a very good and a very interesting story from the Battle of Iwo Jima.
It's a fascinating tale that it tells, which is definitely its strongest feature. As a whole I was very interested in it, individually I don't think it's as strong but as a collective it comes out nicely. Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach are the pick of the performers, though there are a load of familiar faces elsewhere - including Paul Walker, John Slattery and Jamie Bell.
Super intrigued to check out 'Letters from Iwo Jima', which Clint Eastwood & Co. released two months after this to serve as a companion piece. Hopefully that's as good as this.

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Production companies: DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Production countries: United States of America

Budget: $90,000,000

Revenue: $65,900,000

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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