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LAST FLAG FLYING Headline Gala - BFI London Film Festival 2017
Richard Linklater's ruminative comedy finds three men accepting that life isn't quite what it used to be. We talked to actor Bryan Cranston and director Richard Linklater about the making of the film.
Richard Linklater's knowing tribute to Hal Ashby's 1973 classic The Last Detail is both an enjoyably shambolic road movie and a meditation on the futility of war. It's 2003 and Larry ‘Doc' Shepherd (Steve Carell) walks into a roadside dive looking for Sal (Bryan Cranston), whom he hasn't seen since they served in the Vietnam War. A charming loudmouth with a flagrant disregard for authority, Sal is soon enlisted in Doc's get-the-gang-back-together quest. When they track down Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), they discover he has traded one uniform for another and is now a happily married preacher. The sobering reason for this reunion is revealed when Doc asks for help burying his own son who has returned from Iraq in a casket.