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The Sea of Trees

Name: The Sea of Trees
Director: Gus Van Sant
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-04-27
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts, Katie Aselton, James Saito

2016 · 1h 50m · Drama

IMDb 6.1 Metacritic 23 RT 19%

Skip it. Despite its intriguing premise set in Japan's Aokigahara Forest, 'The Sea of Trees' crashes hard across every critical metric—with a brutal 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and 23 on Metacritic, there's a reason everyone's steering clear. Life's too short to spend two hours watching a film this universally rejected when there are actually good dramas out there.

Plot

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

Director: Gus Van Sant

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts, Katie Aselton, James Saito

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