Cicely Tyson was an American actress who was born on December 19, 1924. She was noted for portraying powerful African-American women during a career that spanned more than seven decades. Tyson won three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, one Tony Award, a Peabody Award, and an honorary Academy Award.
Last Flag Flying is a 2017 American war comedy-drama movie directed by Richard Linklater and based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan. Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne play as three Vietnam War veterans who meet after one of their kids are murdered in Iraq.
Last Flag Flying is a sequel to Ponicsan’s 1970 novel The Last Detail, which focused on the same protagonists at a younger age. As a result, the film has been dubbed an unofficial sequel to The Last Detail, the 1973 movie adaptation of the earlier novel.
In November 2016, principal photography began in Pittsburgh. On September 28, 2017, the movie had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, and on November 3, 2017, Amazon Studios and Lionsgate released it in the United States.
Richard Linklater directed from a script co-written with Darryl Ponicsan, based on Ponicsan’s novel, and Amazon Studios would produce and distribute the picture, it was reported in August 2016.
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