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The Sea of Trees
Directed by
Gus Van Sant
PG-13
2016
1h 50m
Drama
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Fantasy
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6.1
19%
44%
6.2
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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.
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Cast of The Sea of Trees
Matthew McConaughey
Arthur Brennan
Naomi Watts
Joan Brennan
Ken Watanabe
Takumi Nakamura
Ryoko Seta
Airport Desk Agent
Sienna Tow
Girl in Airport
Naoko Marshall
Flight Attendant
Michiko Tomura
Woman on Train
Yusuke Tozawa
Man on Train
Abe Lee Tsunenori
Taxi Driver
Joe Girard
Man at Convenience Store
Jazmin Domenech
Young Woman
Luke DeWolfe
Young Man
Katie Aselton
Gabriella Laforte
Nada Despotovich
Maryanne Wescott
Christopher Tarjan
Gil Cramer
Charles Van Eman
Paul Wescott
Bruce Norris
Dr. Howerton
Joe Baken
Simon
Jordan Gavaris
Eric
Anna Friedman
Anna
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The Sea of Trees Ratings & Reviews
Sidney Watson
April 28, 2025
Great movie ! Love the forest to both awesome!
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Van Sant seems unsure of what kind of movie he's making or what he's trying to say. It's best to just enjoy the scenery and look the other way.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
No wonder Watts rules the movie. She's playing the only remotely sympathetic character; the men seem consumed by grief and guilt and platitudes.
The Young Folks
Matt Conway
The Sea of Trees is an emotionally inauthentic and narratively confounding mess that fails to ring a true moment despite the prestigious team behind it
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
A morbid soap opera that's overlong and dramatically undernourished.
We Got This Covered
Matt Donato
Sea Of Trees is the best movie about Aokigahara yet, but considering the competition, that's still not saying much.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The Sea of Trees does not work.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
The Sea of Trees uses depression, cancer and suicide as manipulative devices to tug at heartstrings instead of offering insight into the human condition.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A numinous meditation on grief that's more likely to inspire laughter than tears.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
A stronger movie experience than one might expect. It's anchored by a fine, understated performance by Matthew McConaughey and a deeply felt, if at times melodramatic, story that proves strangely immersive.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
[A] soggy mess of a movie ...
TheWrap
Sam Fragoso
McConaughey and Watts seem to be reading from a tired script of unhappy, protracted matrimony. The dialogue feels rehearsed, and not in a good way.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
Plodding, pretentious and painfully obvious at every turn.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
This is Van Sant's nadir: a sophomoric metaphysical drama that benefits from the director's pictorial eye (the forest looks fittingly ominous), but succumbs to the sentimentalism that has long been his Achilles' heel.
Variety
Justin Chang
This risibly long-winded drama is perhaps above all a profound cultural insult, milking the lush green scenery of Japan's famous Aokigahara forest for all it's worth, while giving co-lead Ken Watanabe little to do.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
Woefully sentimental and maudlin.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
The most confounding element of Sea of Trees is that Van Sant has already made a far better movie about two men struggling to live another day in the middle of nowhere -- his minimalist 2002 drama Gerry.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
You know, artistically, that the news is going to be bad in the opening minutes when Van Sant feels compelled to provide a shot of the keys McConaughey's character leaves in the ignition. There are almost two hours left of that kind of filmmaking.
Slant Magazine
James Lattimer
There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Gus Van Sant has made the weakest movie of his career, which is particularly unfortunate given that it stars Matthew McConaughey, who's been on quite the hot streak lately.
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