Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Tree of Life 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 (Brad Pitt) Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world seeking answers to the origins & meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith Offers English audio description The Thin Red Line After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s Badlands & 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 & violence Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors--Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking Milk) Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides Affliction) Elias Koteas (Zodiac The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) & Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers The People vs Larry Flynt) among them--The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema’s greatest war films Offers Czech Danish Finnish Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese & Swedish subtitles