“Flag Day” (** out of four) was an emotionally obtuse melodrama about a teenage girl (Dylan Penn) and her complicated relationship with her father (Sean Penn who also directed) who tries to take care of her but also leads a double life as a counterfeither and bank robber and underworld criminal. Like a lot of other Penn’s directorial works (“The Pledge”, “The Crossing Guard”), this is earnest and well-intentioned but clouded by an overall air of aloofness and indifference that prevents the material from connecting emotionally. Similar in aura and mood to Penn’s 1991 directorial debut “The Indian Runner” and even more similar in plot to 1986′ “At Close Range” which Penn starred in.