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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Sean Penn, Miranda Otto, John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Jared Leto, George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin, John Savage ...MORE

Cast: Sean Penn, Miranda Otto, John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Jared Leto, George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin, John Savage, John C. Reilly, Kirk Acevedo, Woody Harrelson, Arie Verveen, Nick Stahl, Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Dash Mihok ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Existentialism, Indie, War film

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film. The film tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. The title echoes Rudyard Kipling's calling foot soldiers "the thin red line of 'eroes" in his poem Tommy from Barrack-Room Ballads. The film marked director Terrence Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence. He wrote the... MORE

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film. The film tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. The title echoes Rudyard Kipling's calling foot soldiers "the thin red line of 'eroes" in his poem Tommy from Barrack-Room Ballads. The film marked director Terrence Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence. He wrote the screenplay based on the novel by James Jones. It features a large ensemble cast, including performances and cameos by notable actors, including Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, George Clooney, John Cusack, Jared Leto, and John Travolta. Reportedly, the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours. By the final cut, all footage of the performances by Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, Jason Patric, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke had been removed. The film was scored by Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Klaus Badelt, and shot by John Toll. The film grossed LESS