Last Flag Flying (2017)

One thing to be thankful to Amazon for is that  they bring to a broad audience many little known films.  There are a lot of movies that are made and worth seeing that never make it onto my radar, or on occasion my local theater for very long.
Richard Linklater is the director, the man who brought us the trilogy that started with Before Sunrise in 1995 and Boyhood.  He is also the guy who made Dazed and Confused, so he has a sense of humor as well.  The first two say something about him, and about where this movie came from and is going.
This is a film built on the deeply humanist career of its filmmaker, one that is about, at its core, what we’re willing to do for one another on our darkest days. It is about being there for people when they need a shoulder to cry on or a hand to help them get up.
The plot is simple.  Three Vietnam veterans who are tied together by a shame in their past that only one of them paid for are called upon to pay their debt to him when his son is killed in Iraq.  They go with him to get the body and  help him bury his only child.  It is how they do it that matters, and Linklater is a master at telling a story.