The thin red line [videorecording - DVD] / Terrence Malick

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [London] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc., 2000Description: 1 videodisc (164 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Executive Producer George Stevens Jr. ; Produced by Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, and Grant Hill ; Screenplay and directed by Terrence Malick
Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte and John C. ReillyScope and content: In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese̕s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them
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Based on the novel by James Jones

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Executive Producer George Stevens Jr. ; Produced by Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, and Grant Hill ; Screenplay and directed by Terrence Malick

Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte and John C. Reilly

In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese̕s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them

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