A Tree of Life

2022

Action / Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 294 294

Plot summary

On October 27th, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing eleven people as they prayed, in what would become the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. This documentary is a deeply personal portrait of the survivors, victims and family members, who share their harrowing first-hand accounts of the impact of the shooting on the community.

Director

Trish Adlesic Photo
Trish Adlesic

Top cast

Augie Siriano Photo
Augie Siriano as Self - Survivor, Tree of Life Custodian
Ron Wedner Photo
Ron Wedner as Self - Husband of Andrea Wedner
Martin Gaynor Photo
Martin Gaynor as Self - Survivor
Wasi Mohamed Photo
Wasi Mohamed as Self - Former Executive Director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
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747.7 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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1.5 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 7 / 10

even more relevant in the years since

Just last week a white supremacist shot a group of Black folks in Florida. One of many hate crimes in the past few years. That makes "A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting" all the more relevant.The documentary features interviews with the survivors of the shooting (one might call it a terrorist attack, don't you think?). There's also an emphasis on how many communities came together to support the synagogue, and its significance in the rash of racist violence over the past decade (and the documentary makes clear which individual emboldened the racists).Not the best documentary ever, but worth seeing, especially as certain politicians and celebrities have normalized anti-Jewish sentiment.The documentary includes a song belted out by Idina Menzel.
Reviewed by milosek 2 / 10

Amateurish

The filmmaker truly dropped the ball on this one and failed to make this not just a compelling, but a coherent story.Disregarding the chronology completely, spending too much time on trivial family matters and stories that don't matter to the main aspect of the event.Not setting up the event at all, giving exposition in the start, none of that.There isn't a good 25 minutes of story in this. It's like watching the news channels reporting on the issue but the channels switch randomly every five minutes.In the end, it's barely about the event, more about the usual overall political American society. With a bias towards one side. Of course.
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