We May Never See Another Movie Like Sean Penn’s Father-Daughter Drama ‘Flag Day’ — Here’s Why

MGM is releasing “Flag Day” exclusively in theaters on August 20, because Michael De Luca is still running the studio — until the sale to Amazon goes through.

A decade ago, he had fallen in love with the Jez Butterworth (“Ford v.

Ferrari”) adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s novel about her con man father.

After two-time Oscar-winner Sean Penn finally directed and starred in the independent film, De Luca snapped it up.

An old-fashioned, ’70s-inflected, intense father-daughter drama shot on super-16mm, “Flag Day” was made in defiance of contemporary movie conventions.

After A.G.

Iñárritu and other directors fell out over the years, producer William Horberg (“The Queen’s Gambit”) kept trying to get the film financed until Penn, who had been circling it as either actor or director, finally convinced his daughter Dylan to take on the role of the young journalist who tangles with her father.“Sean is coming from a pure place,

Read full article