Directed by:
Terrence MalickScreenplay:
Terrence MalickCinematography:
John TollComposer:
Hans ZimmerCast:
Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok, Tim Blake Nelson (more)VOD (5)
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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, Jim Caviezel, 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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Sean Penn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/428/164428626_8db481.jpg)
Sean Penn
USA
Best movies:
The Game (1997)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Persepolis (2007)
![Adrien Brody](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/428/164428562_9adc8a.png)
Adrien Brody
USA
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
Detachment (2011)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
![James Caviezel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/628/160628600_c67984.jpg)
James Caviezel
USA
Best movies:
The Rock (1996)
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
Frequency (2000)
![Ben Chaplin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/777/162777839_0ccb8a.jpg)
Ben Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Little Boy (2015)
![George Clooney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/403/168403577_5bt579.jpg)
George Clooney
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
8 (2012) (theatrical recording)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
![John Cusack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267446_915377.jpg)
John Cusack
USA
Best movies:
Stand by Me (1986)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
![Woody Harrelson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/913/164913021_4bb58d.jpg)
Woody Harrelson
USA
Best movies:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
![Elias Koteas](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268026_4860fe.jpg)
Elias Koteas
Canada
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Gattaca (1997)
![Jared Leto](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/238/166238112_696154.png)
Jared Leto
USA
Best movies:
Fight Club (1999)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Lord of War (2005)
![Dash Mihok](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/409/162409863_aa2b18.jpg)
Dash Mihok
USA
Best movies:
Sleepers (1996)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
I Am Legend (2007)
![Tim Blake Nelson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270141_622d78.jpg)
Tim Blake Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Minority Report (2002)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Detachment (2011)
![Nick Nolte](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/054/164054982_f151f6.png)
Nick Nolte
USA
Best movies:
Warrior (2011)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
U Turn (1997)
![John C. Reilly](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/198/164198509_2612cf.jpg)
John C. Reilly
USA
Best movies:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Magnolia (1999)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
![John Savage](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267624_4e7553.jpg)
John Savage
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Hair (1979)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
![John Travolta](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/544/162544399_12855e.jpg)
John Travolta
USA
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (1997) (video compilation)
Grease (1978)
![Arie Verveen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/559/158559774_0bb3a9.jpg)
Arie Verveen
Ireland
Best movies:
Sin City (2005)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Running Free (1999)
![Kirk Acevedo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/463/162463461_6f77e1.png)
Kirk Acevedo
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Invincible (2006)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
![Mark Boone Junior](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269323_51379c.jpg)
Mark Boone Junior
USA
Best movies:
Se7en (1995)
Batman Begins (2005)
Memento (2000)
![Don Harvey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/093/885/93885944_8bf62f.jpg)
Don Harvey
USA
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
The Untouchables (1987)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Danny Hoch
USA
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)