PREVIEW: Flag Day (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Dylan Penn (Condemned), Sean Penn (Milk), Katheryn Winnick (The Marksman), Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men), Hopper Penn (The Last Face), Regina King (The Harder They Fall), Norbert Leo Butz (Greetings from Tim Buckley), Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone), Eddie Marsan (Filth), Bailey Noble (Martyrs), Jadyn Rylee (film debut), Addison Tymec (Disappearance at Clifton Hill), Beckam Crawford (Hold the Dark)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sean Penn (Into the Wild), director; Jez Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow) and John-Henry Butterworth (Le Mans ’66), writers; William Horberg (The Kite Runner), Jon Kilik (Foxcatcher) and Fernando Sulichin (Snowden), producers; Joseph Vitarelli (Nobody’s Baby), composer; Danny Moder (Fireflies in the Garden), cinematographer; Valdís Óskarsdóttir (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Michelle Tesoro (Shot Caller), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Jennifer Vogel (Dylan Penn) grows up adoring her energetic and loving father John (Sean Penn), but unbeknownst to her he is a notorious US counterfeiter, bank robber and conman who aims to provide for his family…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Director Sean Penn recruits his real-life daughter Dylan Penn for a father-child dynamic that feels truly authentic, in a crime drama that brings out the best of both Penns.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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