The Thin Red Line

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Theatrical Release Date:

12/23/1998

DVD Release Date:

11/07/2000

Run Time:

180min.

Starring:

Sean Penn , Adrien Brody , James Caviezel , Ben Chaplin , George Clooney

Director(s):

Terrence Malick

Distributor(s):

Fox

MPAA Rating:

R for realistic war violence and language.

Genre(s):

Action,Drama,War

Plot: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up ... Read More

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