2016 Directed by Garth Davis
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Dev Patel Rooney Mara David Wenham Nicole Kidman Abhishek Bharate Divian Ladwa Priyanka Bose Deepti Naval Tannishtha Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Sunny Pawar Keshav Jadhav Benjamin Rigby Riddhi Sen Rita Boy Arka Das Emilie Cocquerel Sachin Joab Menik Gooneratne Anna Samson Eamon Farren Tegan Crowley Belinda Misevski Lucy Moir
Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein David Glasser Emile Sherman Iain Canning Angie Fielder Andrew Fraser Shahen Mekertichian Daniel Levin
A Long Way Home, סארו : הדרך הביתה, Lion – Der lange Weg nach Hause, Lion: Uma Jornada para Casa
if this is oscar bait then i guess i'm a fish now because i've been CAUGHT and REELED the fuck IN
couldn't figure out why this middlebrow Oscar-bait was so good and gorgeous until i realized that Garth Davis was the dude who directed 4 episodes of TOP OF THE LAKE, and then it all clicked into place. this is straight down the center, but it's textured, understated (at least until the Sia song goes full-Weinstein in the end credits), and beautifully furnished (the Dustin O'Halloran / Hauschka score is a thing of wonder). i was moved. i suspect people who were adopted will be DESTROYED.
if this is what oscar bait looks like in 2016, it's shaping up to be a relatively painless awards season.
listen...i don't want kids, but if sunny pawar showed up at my front door and asked me to adopt him, i would cry, drop everything, and raise him into a wonderful young man
Dev Angel Patel deserves TWO oscars.... one for each of those magnificently broad shoulders.... and Sunny Pawar deserves all remaining oscars THE END
I was told that I pronounced Philadelphia as "Phi-yay-yay" as a young kid, so I'd be screwed if I got lost far from home
i can't believe the awkward kid from skins is now this handsome, sweet, beautiful curly-haired Man. like, they really are the same person at different stages of life. what kind of glo up
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Never have I seen such a grossly divided movie; messy at the seams and ready to burst with equal amounts of inspiration and schmaltz. A feature debut by Garth Davis, Lion is an attempt at dual halves built to satisfy a singular whole, but its issue lies in forming an impeccable foundation only to never erect a monument in response. The first half of Lion is, at least at first glance (who knows how it'll fare now that I know what the film turns into), astonishing; a rushing, noisy turbine of feelings and thoughts and incidents propelled by subjectivity. Its story, of an Indian boy becoming lost and winding up in the chaotic environment of Calcutta, clings itself to…
