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Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

A single shot can end the war.

Release:2006
Runtime:2h 15m
Country:United States
Director:Clint Eastwood
Language:English

Genre

DramaHistoryWar
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Keywords

Dying And DeathJapanWorld War IiBased On True StoryPacificPacific WarIwo JimaAftercreditsstinger
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Flags of Our Fathers rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 133K votes
Rotten Tomatoes76%
Metacritic79%
TMDb6.9/10· 2K votes

With 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 79/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Cast of Flags of Our Fathers

  • Ryan Phillippe

    Ryan Phillippe

    as John 'Doc' Bradley

  • Jesse Bradford

    Jesse Bradford

    as Rene Gagnon

  • Adam Beach

    Adam Beach

    as Ira Hayes

  • John Benjamin Hickey

    John Benjamin Hickey

    as Keyes Beech

  • John Slattery

    John Slattery

    as Bud Gerber

  • Barry Pepper

    Barry Pepper

    as Mike Strank

  • Jamie Bell

    Jamie Bell

    as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski

  • Paul Walker

    Paul Walker

    as Hank Hansen

  • Robert Patrick

    Robert Patrick

    as Colonel Chandler Johnson

  • Neal McDonough

    Neal McDonough

    as Captain Severance

  • Melanie Lynskey

    Melanie Lynskey

    as Pauline Harnois

  • Tom McCarthy

    Tom McCarthy

    as James Bradley

Flags of Our Fathers facts

Budget
$90M
Box office
$65.9M
Collection
Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Collection

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

  • •Eastwood examines war aftermath beyond battlefield heroic mythology
  • •Iwo Jima battle sequences deliver visceral authentic combat intensity
  • •Ensemble cast brings humanity to complex historical narrative

What the audience disliked

  • •Dual timeline structure occasionally interrupts narrative momentum flow
  • •Some themes about glory and sacrifice feel heavy-handed
Saga: Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Collection

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