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About
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Theatrical
May 27, 2011
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 11, 2011
Box Office
$54.7M
Budget
$32.0M
Return
1.7x
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Producers
Music
Studio
River Road Entertainment
Keywords
christianity
sibling relationship
philosophy
parent child relationship
texas
sun
telegram
bible
tree
meteor
afterlife
grief
space
surrealism
coming of age
spirituality
memory
religion
dinosaur
birth
death
grace
childhood
death of brother
silhouette
existentialism
organist
masculinity
cosmos
1950s
self reflection
newborn baby
organ player
waco, texas
father son relationship
mother son relationship
brother brother relationship
stream of consciousness
factual
life
existential crisis
bitter
tragic
pantheism
Cast
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Brad Pitt
Mr. O'Brien
J
Jessica Chastain
Mrs. O'Brien
S
Sean Penn
Jack
F
Fiona Shaw
Grandmother
T
Tye Sheridan
Steve
W
Will Wallace
Architect
N
Nicolas Gonda
Mr. Reynolds
B
Brayden Whisenhunt
Jo Bates
J
Joanna Going
Jack's Wife
I
Irene Bedard
Messenger
S
Savannah Welch
Mrs. Kimball
T
Tamara Jolaine
Mrs. Stone
R
Ryan Melton
Prisoner
M
Michael Showers
Mr. Brown
K
Kimberly Whalen
Mrs. Brown
M
Margaret Hoard
Jane
W
Wally Welch
Clergyman
H
Hudson Lee Long
Mr. Bagley
M
Michael Dixon
Dusty Walsh
W
William Hardy
Jack's Work Colleague
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Exploring Existence in The Tree of Life
Quotes about The Tree of Life
]'s The Tree of Life is a film of vast ] and deep ], attempting no less than to encompass ] of ] and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal ]. The only other film I've seen with this ] of vision is ] ], and it lacked Malick's fierce evocation of ] ]. … I don't ] when a film has ] more immediately with my own ] ]. In uncanny ways, the central events of The Tree of Life reflect a ] and ] I lived in, and the boys in it are me. If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's ], it would look so much like this. … There is a father who maintains ] and a mother who exudes ], and long summer days of ] and idleness and urgent unsaid questions about the ] of things. … The film's portrait of everyday life, inspired by Malick's memories of his hometown of Waco, Texas, is bounded by two immensities, one of space and time, and the other of ]. The Tree of Life has awe-inspiring visuals suggesting the ] and expansion of the ], the appearance of life on a microscopic level and the ] of species. This process leads to the ] ], and to all of us. We were created in the ] and over untold millions of years, molecules formed themselves into, well, you and me. And what comes after? In whispered ] near the ], "]" and "]" are heard. … The film's coda provides a ] of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is ] in the fullness of ].
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