Flag Day

[Opens Aug. 20 in theaters.] After a talented Minneapolis journalist (Dylan Penn) is interviewed by a detective (Regina King) in 1992 upon the arrest of her compulsively lying father (Sean Penn) for printing $22 million in counterfeit bills in Sean Penn's poignant, factually inspired, dark, well-acted, star-studded (Josh Brolin, Eddie Marsan, Miles Teller, Dale Dickey, Norbert Leo Butz, and Bailey Noble), 108-minute film based on Jennifer Vogel's memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father's Counterfeit Life, she recounts her struggles with developing a close, meaningful relationship with her estranged father (Sean Penn), who desperately wants a connection, as an adult and while growing up as a child (Jadyn Rylee/Megan Best/Addison Tymec) in Minnesota with her neglectful mother (Katherine Winnick), younger brother (Hopper Penn/Beckam Crawford), and abusive, alcoholic stepfather (James Russo).
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