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The Tree of Life

Summary: The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.

Release Date: May 17, 2011

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Director: Terrence Malick

Writer: Terrence Malick

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cottonwood Pictures, River Road Entertainment, Searchlight Pictures, Brace Cove Productions, Plan B Entertainment, Summit Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Searchlight Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,303,319

International: $ 45,105,928

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1950s abandoned house african american afterlife air rifle airplane aluminum cup ambition ancestry apology arrest art film artificial respiration attic avant garde baby bad news baptism barbecue bare chested boy bare chested male baseball baseball bat bath bathtub bb gun beach begins with a quotation begins with a quote being followed bible quote bicycle big bang bird swarm birth birth of son black american blessing blowing bubbles book boy boy guitarist breaking a window breaking and entering bridge brother brother relationship bubble bath bully bullying butterfly cafe candle car radio car repair card playing cat catholic cell phone cells cemetery child abuse child as main character child protagonist childbirth childhood childhood memory children china chinese choir christian christianity church cigarette lighter class classroom clown coffin coming of age cosmos court courthouse courtroom crossing oneself cruelty crying crying baby daily life dancing dare ddt dead body death death by drowning death in family death notification death of boy death of brother death of son death wish deformed leg and arm desert destiny destroying property dinosaur dinosaur extinction dirge dishwashing distrust dog domineering father doorway to nowhere drinking from a hose drowning dysfunctional family eating education educational ambition electric fan electric shock electrocution elevator embryo end of the world engineer envy epic escalator existentialism expectant father expectant mother experimental film explosion eye mask eyeglasses face slap failure fainting family relationships fast motion scene father son relationship father teaching son how to fight fear fertilization fetus fight fire fired from a job fish flash forward flashback flashlight floating in the air flower flowers following someone food forest four word title frog garbage can garden gardening giving birth glass coffin glass elevator grandmother grandson relationship grass graveyard grief growing up guilt guitar guitar player guitarist gunshot hairbrush halloween hand clapping game hand kissing handshake hanging out washing hate heartbeat hit with a board holding head underwater homecoming hope hose house husband wife relationship ice cube ice tray independent film inheritance insect jealousy jigsaw puzzle journey jumping from a tree jumping on a bed kicking kicking a can kids playing with frog killing kiss kneeling kneeling on a beach ladder lamp socket laundry drying on a clothesline lava lawn sprinkler learning to read learning to walk liar lie lighting a candle limping man lingerie listening to music little boy lizard lizard in bathtub looking at each other through a window looking at oneself in a mirror looking in a window looking out a window loss of brother loss of innocence loss of son machismo male female relationship male police officer man wears eyeglasses marital problem marriage memory meteor mirror mother kisses son mother kisses son's forehead mother son relationship mourning moving musician naivety newborn baby newspaper nonlinear timeline notebook ocean organist origins of life outer space overhead camera shot pain painting pantheism parents arguing patent people gathering on beach photography pianist piano pinecone pipe organ plain planet planet earth plant in title playing playing catch police police car police officer power plant prayer praying hands pregnancy pregnant wife prehistoric times pretending to be a car priest promise pulling weeds punching oneself in the face rain reading reading a newspaper reading aloud record player recording redhead reference to arturo toscanini reference to god reference to job reference to johannes brahms reference to pan american airlines regret religion resentment toward father restaurant rinsing off feet river rolling downhill running running into water saying grace school school bell schoolyard sea seagull search sermon shadow shame shark sibling rivalry silhouette skyscraper slamming a screen door sleeping slow motion scene small town snake snooping somersault son kisses mother sparkler spitting spraying ddt stained glass window stairway stars stealing steam stick storm storytelling streetlight strict father stroke suburb suffering sun sunflower surrealism survival survival of the fittest swimming swimming pool swimming underwater swimsuit swing tarkovskyesque teaching a boy how to fight tears telegram telegram delivery man telephone call texas theft thief throwing a stick thunder time capsule timeframe 1950s tin can stilts tolling bell toy alligator toy gun toy kangaroo train tracks tree tree climbing tree planting tree swing treehouse trust underwater scene universe urban setting vandalism vein very little dialogue voice over narration volcano waco texas wading waitress walking in the middle of the street walking on a beach walking on tin can stilts wanting to kill father waterfall watering can wave whispering wind wind chime wishing someone dead wonderment woods younger version of character

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