Epic war drama featuring a star-studded ensemble cast including Sean Penn and Nick Nolte. Nominated for seven Oscars, and won...
Epic war drama featuring a star-studded ensemble cast including Sean Penn and Nick Nolte. Nominated for seven Oscars, and won director Terrence Malick the Golden Berlin Bear.
Based on the novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
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80 %106 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
80 %149,022 reviewsAudience score rating
"At two hours and 45 minutes, The Thin Red Line gives ample evidence of suffering all manner of cuts, if not having been simply hacked into its final shape. But this violence only adds to the movie's brave, strange, eroded nobility."
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Village Voice
Village Voice"A complex, highly talented work marked by intellectual and philosophical ambitions!"
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Variety
Variety"It's a genuinely epic ciné-poem that essentially sidesteps history, politics and conventional ethics to deal with war as an absolute, inevitable and eternal facet of existence."
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Time Out
Time Out"The thinking person's Saving Private Ryan."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"Fascinating!"
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Most platoon dramas emphasize comradeship, but this most cosmic and interior of war movies is finally about the impossibility of escaping one's own head."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"The Thin Red Line is an epic aestheticisation of World War II, a movie at once bold and baffling, immediate and abstract."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment WeeklyThe Thin Red Line | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Golden Bear (Malick) and Honourable Mention (John Toll) for camera work, 1999 Berlin International Film Festival
- Runtime
- 170
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Country of origin
- USA
