It’s a buddy road trip movie like no other. Richard Linklater is back in the director’s chair for the awards season drama “Last Flag Flying,” starring Steve Carell as Doc, a former military man whose son is killed in the Iraq War.

Doc reunites with his Vietnam buddies, played by Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne, to bring his son’s body back home to New Hampshire after passing up on an Arlington Cemetery military burial.

It’s been three decades since they served together in Vietnam and the group has some reminiscing to do, sharing memories on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast and coming to terms with their shared past.

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Amazon Studios presents the Detour film and Zenzero Pictures/Cinetic Media production.

“Last Flag Flying” also features Yul Vazquez and Cicely Tyson. It opens the New York Film Festival on Sept. 28.

Watch the trailer above.

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2017 Emmy nominees Tracee Ellis Ross and Kathryn Hahn were among an impressive turnout of nominated actors at a TV Academy cocktail party hosted by their peers on Monday night, August 21.

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RuPaul, Tony Hale, and Michelle Visage have a lot to smile about. For one, RuPaul and Visage's "Drag Race" on VH1 scored 8 Emmy nominations.

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Some years at this annual event, part-time Montage resident Justin Bieber has popped in. Not this year.

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Patrika Darbo (who won an Emmy last year) and Lily Tomlin are the "Governors" of the Performers Peer Group. That means they lead this branch of the TV Academy.

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Here is a partial group shot of the 2017 acting nominees. On Friday night of Emmy weekend, a larger grouping of the nominees who are in town will pose for another class photo.

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Allison Janney (with Leonardo Nam) spent time getting to know "This Is Us" lead Chrissy Metz when they took the stage together.

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Dr. K. on "This Is Us," Gerald McRaney, is a first-time Emmy nominee. He's up for Guest Actor in a Drama Series against two other guest stars on the same show. "This is a little nerve- racking. I like being on the set and the process of doing the work," he said. On working the Emmy campaign trail, McRaney told The Party Report, "It's weird, but it's a damn good weird."

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Real friends alert: "Veep" co-stars Tony Hale and Matt Walsh drove off together at the end of the event.

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"Television has never been better. Television rivals motion pictures," actor and voice of Porky Pig, Bob Bergen (right) told The Party Report. "I think the Amazons and the Hulus have brought the networks up a notch."

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Salvador Camarena and Ross Matthews

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Mindy Sterling (left, with Alan Tudyk) is nominated against herself in the Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.

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Darbo and new TV Academy Chairman and CEO Hayma Washington have more than 20 more peer group receptions to attend before the ceremony on September 17.

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