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The Thin Red Line. Jump to. 22 wins & 47 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1999 Nominee Oscar. Best Picture. Robert Michael Geisler. John Roberdeau. Grant Hill. 1999 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. Terrence Malick. 1999 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Terrence Malick. 1999 Nominee Oscar.
United States. Language. English. Budget. $52 million [2] Box office. $98.1 million [2] The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film.
- $98.1 million
- Hans Zimmer
- $52 million
In selecting a director of photography for his haunting, elegiacal war drama, Malick chose two-time Academy Award-winning director of photography John Toll, ASC (Legends of the Fall, Braveheart), whose work on The Thin Red Line recently earned him both the New York Film Critics’ and National Society of Film Critics’ awards for Best ...
Jan 8, 1999 · The actors in "The Thin Red Line" are making one movie, and the director is making another. This leads to an almost hallucinatory sense of displacement, as the actors struggle for realism, and the movie's point of view hovers above them like a high school kid all filled with big questions. My guess is that any veteran of the actual battle of Guadalcanal would describe this movie with an eight ...
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The Thin Red Line: Directed by Terrence Malick. With Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen, Benjamin Green, Simon Billig. Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
- Terrence Malick
- 3 min
The Thin Red Line is a daringly philosophical World War II film with an enormous cast of eager stars. In 1942, Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) is a U.S. Army absconder living peacefully with the ...
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- War, History, Drama
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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.
