THE THIN RED LINE (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones's 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema's finest actors–Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson among them–The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of the greatest war films ever produced.
• Cast: Kirk Acevedo, Sean Penn, Penelope Allen, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Benjamin Green, Simon Billig, Ben Chaplin, Mark Boone Junior, George Clooney, John Cusack, Norman Patrick Brown, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, John Travolta, Jarrod Dean, Matt Doran, Travis Fine, Paul Gleeson, David Harrod, Don Harvey, Kengo Hasuo, Ben Hines, Danny Hoch, Robert Roy Hofmo, Jack, Thomas Jane, Arie Verveen, Jimmy Xihite, Polyn Leona, Jared Leto, Simon Lyndon, Gordon MacDonald, Kazuki Maehara, Marina Malota, Michael McGrady, Dash Mihok, Ken Mitsuishi, Ryûshi Mizukami, Tim Blake Nelson, Larry Neuhaus, Taiju Okayasu, Takamitsu Ôkubo, Miranda Otto, Larry Romano, John Savage, Kazuyoshi Sakai, Masayuki Shida, John Dee Smith, Stephen Spacek, Nick Stahl, Hiroya Sugisaki, Kouji Suzuki, Tomohiro Tanji, Minoru Toyoshima, Terutake Tsuji, Steven Vidler, Vincent Wild, Todd Wallace, Will Wallace, Joe Watanabe, Simon Westaway, Dan Wyllie, Yasuomi Yoshino, John Augwata, Joshua Augwata, John Bakotee, Immanuel Dato, Michael Iha, Emmunual Konai, Stephen Konai, Peter Morosiro, Amos Niuga, Jennifer Siugali, Carlos Tome, Selina Tome, Kick Gurry, Randall Duk Kim, Darrin Klimek, Donal Logue, Clark McCutchen, David Paschall, Jace Phillips, Justin Ward, Felix Williamson, Terrence Malick, James Jones
• Director: Terrence Malick
• Runtime: 2:50
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Fox 2000 Pictures, Phoenix Pictures
• Media Format: Movie