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The Sea of Trees
2015
· Movie
· 110 min
D
MEANRANK
51/100
Every rating
19–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 19, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 21, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An American man travels to the infamous Aokigahara forest in Japan, a known suicide site, to end his life. In the forest, he encounters a lost Japanese man who is also contemplating suicide. The two form an unexpected bond and decide to help each other find their way out of the forest, reflecting on the lives and losses that brought them there.
Details
- Director
- Gus Van Sant
- Writer
- Chris Sparling
- Released
- 27 April 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $909.0K
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