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October 20, 2006

At the Movies: Eastwood's WWII drama explores role of war heroes

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic

Flags of Our Fathers

Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Rating: R for sequences of graphic war violence and carnage, and for language

Running time: 131 minutes
The battle scenes are harrowing in “Flags of Our Fathers,” the black-sand beaches exploding again and again with artillery fire, filling the gray sky and forming an even darker vision of hell.

But it's what happens to the men after they've come home from Iwo Jima — and been hailed as heroes, whether they deserve it or not — that can be just as devastating in a more intimate, internal way.


 
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