

The Tree of Life
Nothing stands still.
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. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
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6.7/10
3,446 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $32M
- Box office
- $54.7M
- Language
- English
- sibling relationship
- parent child relationship
- afterlife
- christianity
- philosophy
- tree
- sun
- texas
- telegram
- bible
- surrealism
- meteor
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1327 May 2011
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A(Fox Searchlight Pictures)8 Jul 2011
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG(Icon)30 Jun 2011
CanadaCA
- Theatrical(eOne Films)17 Jun 2011
- Physical11 Oct 2011
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1315 Dec 2011
AustriaAT
- Theatrical(Filmladen)17 Jun 2011
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical(Belga Films)18 May 2011
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1012 Aug 2011
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical11(Filmcompagniet)19 May 2011
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical9 Dec 2011
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1226 Aug 2011
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival16 May 2011
- TheatricalTP(EuropaCorp)17 May 2011
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The Tree of Life was released on 17 May 2011.
Audience reviews
3- A5/10
Andres Gomez
11/29/2013
A movie that wants to mean more than what is actually telling. Taking a lot of things borrowed from 2001, it doesn't even come close to have such a deep an interesting meaning.
- C6/10
CRCulver
9/1/2018
Terrence Malick's <i>The Tree of Life</i> is an attempt to inject some cosmic wonder into the most mundane American story. In the 1950s, two parents bring up three boys in an American white middle-class, small-town existence. The mother (Jessica Chastain) radiates love and warmth, while the father (Brad Pitt) feels the obligation to be cold and distant in order to prepare his sons for the cruel world that awaits t…
- F4/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/19/2022
**Visually grandiose and made with true technical and artistic mastery, it is a film with difficult and indigestible themes, which will scare the audience with its slowness and tiring atmosphere.** There are films that are made for some audiences and not for most people, the general public. This film is one of them: being what it is, it doesn't even try to capture our sympathy or attention. The film did very well …
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