Flags of Our Fathers Release
Date: October 20, 2006 Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount) Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Paul Haggis, William Broyles Jr. Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Paul Walker,
Jamie Bell, Barry Pepper, John Benjamin Hickey Genre: Action, Drama, War MPAA Rating: R (for sequences of graphic war violence and carnage, and
for language) Official Website: FlagsofOurFathers.com
Every day, the 2.5
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disease, and rape, while the few lucky enough to remain in their homes
risk displacement, torture and murder.
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elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying
campaign.
Synopsis:
The
photograph “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” made heroes
of the men in the picture as the three surviving flag-raisers
were returned to the U.S. and made into props in the government’s Seventh War Bond Tour. Uncomfortable
with their new celebrity, the flag-raisers considered the real
heroes to be the men who died on Iwo Jima; still, the American
public held them up as the best America had to offer, the supermen
who conquered the Japanese… — More here
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