Who is Flag Day movie based on?

Premise. The daughter of a con artist struggles to come to terms with her father’s past, involving the fourth-largest seizure of counterfeit bills in U.S. history, nearly $20 million. Based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2004 book, Flim-Flam Man : A True Family History.

Is Flag Day a good film?

A true-life story that traces one woman’s tumultuous relationship with her serially unreliable father, Sean Penn’s Flag Day looks terrific. With its grainy, handheld camerawork and fondness for gloaming, magic-hour light, visually it feels like a cross between Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Barbara Loden’s Wanda.

Why is Flag Day Rated R?

Teen drug use, violence in draggy, mournful drama.

Is Flag Day a true movie?

Based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn, Flag Day stars Penn and his real-life daughter Dylan Penn in an intimate family portrait about a young woman who struggles to rise above the wreckage of her past while reconciling the inescapable bond between a daughter and her father.