After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and 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, and violence. 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 cinema's greatest war films.

Supplements New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill Outtakes from the film Video interviews with several of the film's actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Tom Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage New interview with composer Hans Zimmer New video piece featuring interviews with editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein An interview with writer James Jones's daughter Kaylie Jones World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands Original theatrical trailer

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