Richard Linklater’s New Iraq War Movie Will Make You Laugh and Cry – Esquire.com

Following up on the breezy summer baseball movie Everybody Wants Some!!, director Richard Linklater is returning with a much heavier topic. A sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 comedy-drama The Last Detail, Linklater's Last Flag Flying reunites veterans Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) with Larry "Doc" Shepherd (Steve Carell) on a mission to bring home Shepherd's son, who was killed in the Iraq War.

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In very Little Miss Sunshine-style, they end up transporting the casket on their own on a trip up the East Coast to his home in New Hampshire. The trailer for Last Flag Flying mirrors the tone and some of the settings of the original, with the trio traveling on trains and through New York City to wrestle with the tragic results of war.

The film is due out on November 3 through Amazon Studios.

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