Flags of our Fathers

A two-tiered screenplay by Paul Haggis (Crash) and William Broyles Jr. compares the actual raising of the flag on Iwo Jima with the bond-selling tour the survivors were sent on after they vecame national heroes. Clint Eastwood directed; the cast includes Ryan Phillippe and a devastating Adam Beach.

“A film of awesome power and blistering provocation.” (Rolling Stone)

“[Captures] the spirit of our time with its mixture of cynicism and idealism, irony and conviction, satiric skepticism and red-blooded patriotism.” (New York Observer)

“This sad true story wrings you out emotionally because it's concerned with both the deaths of young men in battle and what happens when the needs of those who survive clash with what society expects and politics demands.” (L.A. Times)

“With FLAGS, Eastwood has made one of his best films -- a searching, morally complex deconstruction of the Greatest Generation that is nevertheless rich in the sensitivity to human frailty that has become his signature as a filmmaker.” (Village Voice)

“In his new film about the battle for Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood says something new and urgent about the uses of war and of the men who fight.” (New York Times)