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The Tree of Life
Sean Penn plays a middle-aged executive evidently in the throes of a midlife breakdown, and he is mentally carried back in time to his boyhood in 1950s west Texas, where he and his brothers were dominated by an overbearing father, superbly played by Brad Pitt – a ferocious disciplinarian who abandoned his early vocation for music to become a failed businessman. Their mother, played by Jessica Chastain, is a gentle, religious soul who asks her sons to follow the way of divine grace, rather than be content to thrive as natural beings. Their father wants them merely to be strong. When one of the brothers dies at the age of 19 on military service, it creates a wound that promises never to heal. Director: Terrence Malick Starring: Brad Pitt, Dalip Singh, Fiona Shaw, Hunter McCracken, Jackson Hurst, Sean Penn Rating: 12A Year: 2011 Country: USA Length: 138mins |