Last Flag Flying (2017) on Netflix
Larry "Doc" Shepherd's son was killed in Iraq. The widowed Vietnam veteran seeks out two men he served with. Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller agree to help him collect the body.
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Plot summary
In 2003, Larry "Doc" Shepherd walks into Sal Nealon's bar, and the Marine he served with in Vietnam joins him on a drive. Doc has also tracked down another old friend, Richard Mueller, now a reverend. Over dinner with Mueller and his wife, Doc explains that his own wife has died and that his only son, Larry Jr., was killed in Iraq. He asks the two men to come with him to collect the body and see it to burial. Sal agrees at once. Mueller hesitates, saying that Sal and Doc belong to a period of his life he would rather leave behind, and his wife urges him to go.
Cast
- Tammy Tsaias Mother (Irene)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Last Flag Flying (2017)
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- Darryl Ponicsan's 2005 novel Last Flag Flying continues the story of the same characters from his 1970 novel The Last Detail, following them later in life. Because of this, the film has been described as an unofficial sequel to the 1973 adaptation of that earlier novel.
