Directed by:
Terrence MalickScreenplay:
Terrence MalickCinematography:
Emmanuel LubezkiCast:
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Fiona Shaw, Joanna Going, Kimberly Whalen, Jenny Shakeshaft, Will Wallace (more)VOD (3)
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Four decades into an already legendary career, Terrence Malick realized his most rapturous vision to date, tracing a story of childhood, wonder, and grief to the outer limits of time and space. Reaching back to the dawn of creation, Malick sets a story of boyhood memories on a universal scale, charting the coming of age of an awestruck child (newcomer Hunter McCracken) in Texas in the 1950s, as he learns to navigate the extremes of nature and grace represented by his bitter, often tyrannical father (Brad Pitt) and his ethereal, nurturing mother (Jessica Chastain, in her breakout role). Shot with nimble attention to life’s most fleeting moments by Emmanuel Lubezki, the Palme d’Or–winning The Tree of Life marks the intimately personal, cosmically ambitious culmination of Malick’s singular approach to filmmaking. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Brad Pitt
USA
Best movies:
Se7en (1995)
Fight Club (1999)
Snatch (2000)
Sean Penn
USA
Best movies:
The Game (1997)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Persepolis (2007)
Jessica Chastain
USA
Best movies:
The Help (2011)
Interstellar (2014)
The Martian (2015)
Hunter McCracken
Best movies:
The Tree of Life (2011)
Laramie Eppler
Best movies:
The Tree of Life (2011)
Fiona Shaw
Ireland
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
My Left Foot (1989)
Gormenghast (2000) (series)
Joanna Going
USA
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Kimberly Whalen
USA
Best movies:
The Tree of Life (2011)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)
Dakota's Summer (2014)
Jenny Shakeshaft
USA
Best movies:
Brotherhood (2010)
W. (2008)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Will Wallace
Best movies:
I Am Sam (2001)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Tamara Jolaine
Best movies:
Temple Grandin (2010) (TV movie)
Boyhood (2014)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Jackson Hurst
USA
Best movies:
Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
The Mist (2007)
A Bird of the Air (2011)
Scott Jefferies
USA
Best movies:
Machete (2010)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Houston (2013)
Tye Sheridan
USA
Best movies:
Ready Player One (2018)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Michael Dixon
UK
Best movies:
Cashback (2006)
Alexander (2004)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Crystal Mantecon
Best movies:
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Road House 2 (2006)
Nicolas Gonda
Best movies:
The Tree of Life (2011)
Michael Showers
USA
Best movies:
Traffic (2000)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
Soul Men (2008)
Savannah Welch
Best movies:
Boyhood (2014)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Song to Song (2017)
Benjamin Dane
USA
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
The Tree of Life (2011)
I Am Gabriel (2012)