The Tree of Life (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) Blu-Ray DVD

The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

"This stunningly original triumph from visionary director Terrence Malick stars Academy Award® Nominee Brad Pitt and Academy Award® Winner Sean Penn. The epic, yet intimate, story follows the life journey of Jack O’Brien (played as an adult by Penn), the eldest son of a fractured Midwestern family. Pitt delivers a powerful performance as the cataclysmic force of nature in Jack’s world, his complex and rigidly authoritarian father. Hailed as a visually breathtaking masterpiece by critics and audiences alike, THE TREE OF LIFE won the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, becoming one of the year’s most talked about films."

Editor's Note

Heavy hitters Brad Pitt and Sean Penn team up for this film from Terrence Malick (DAYS OF HEAVEN). The iconic director also chose newcomer Jessica Chastain to star in his movie.

Features

DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, Spanish, Subtitled

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Foxvideo
	Release Date: 1/15/2013
	Running Time: 139 minutes
	UPC: 00024543749349
	Number of Discs: 2
Audio & Video
	Available Audio Tracks:
	Video: Color

Entertainment Reviews

The Tree of Life - DVD Review

filmcritic.com DVD Reviews

Published on: 10/11/2011 5:15 AM

Life begins and ends in the opening moments of Terrence Malick's hypnotic The Tree of Life, and then it begins and ends again. The universe, imagined here in peerless CGI compositions and landscape shots of such distinct clarity as to turn the makers of Planet Earth green with envy, is in a constant state of dithering and delighting, expanding and exploding, rising and relenting. The notoriously reclusive Malick uses these images, accompanied by pieces by Bach, Mahler and Holst, as a mere overture. A raptor spares the life of a young, weak brachylophosaurus while cells divide, collide, and coalesce into human life, which takes on the shape of the O'Brien clan, a family of five living in a suburb of Waco, Texas in the fifties, where a fog of DDT and the sight of a slender beauty's nightgown become totems of the transcendentally unsettling adolescence of the eldest O'Brien child, Jack (Hunter McCracken)....read the full review

The Tree of Life - Blu-Ray DVD Review

By: David R Perry Blogcritics.org Reviews

Published on: 10/14/2011 5:46 PM

The Tree of Life is only the fifth film in director's Terrance Malick's 35-plus year career. Starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn, it centers on a small-town Texas family growing up during the 1950s, the strained relationship between the father and his children, the family's coping with the loss of a child, and the more existential questions that arise from these relationships and losses. The film won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival....read the full review

Cast & Crew

	Sean Penn
	Jessica Chastain
	Brad Pitt
	Sarah Green - Producer
	Dede Gardner - Producer
	Grant Hill - Producer
	William Pohlad - Producer
	Brad Pitt - Producer
	Terrence Malick - Screenwriter
	Terrence Malick - Director

Professional Reviews

Box Office
4.5 stars out of 5 -- " Aggressively impressionistic and unapologetically spiritual, Malick's long-gestating meditation on the meaning of life is, if nothing else, a singularly original and deeply personal film..." 05/16/2011

Los Angeles Times
"Undeniably impressive....[A] complex, extraordinarily ambitious and years-in-the-making new feature..." 05/26/2011

Wall Street Journal
"THE TREE OF LIFE is a free-form meditation....The three central, primal portraits -- father, mother, first-born child -- are astonishingly vivid, especially since they're not conventional performances..." 06/03/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] film of vast ambition and deep humility....THE TREE OF LIFE has awe-inspiring visuals..." 06/03/2011

New York Times
"With disarming sincerity and daunting formal sophistication, THE TREE OF LIFE ponders some of the hardest and most persistent questions, the kind that leave adults speechless when children ask them." 05/27/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"Malick clings to the promise of grace: His vision of the afterlife is a dreamy beach, enhanced by an excellent playlist of fine classical music, and promising the peace that surpasses all understanding." -- Grade: B 06/03/2011

Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Shot with a poet's eye, Malick's film is a groundbreaker, a personal vision that dares to reach for the stars." 06/23/2011

Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] wondrous, mind-blowing images....THE TREE OF LIFE is beautiful." 07/07/2011

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "THE TREE OF LIFE pushes American cinema into regions uncharted since Stanley Kubrick's heyday." 08/01/2011

Sight and Sound
"Malick, of course, is enough of a magician to craft breath-catching moments by the dozen..." 08/01/2011