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 Daniel Levin Shahen Mekertichian
A Long Way Home, Lion – Der lange Weg nach Hause, סארו : הדרך הביתה
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.
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
48
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…
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
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
If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me where my "real" parents were or if I intended to go back "home," I could gentrify the Chinese province I was born in. It's a benevolent and well-meaning question, with "home" said in that pointed way that Westerners do when they’re talking to someone foreign, at heart, but it's also blithely uninterested in the complexities and nuances of adoption, particularly of transracial adoptions, where the child of adoption belongs to a different ethnic background than the parents.
Lion, which was directed by Garth Davis and adapted by Luke Davies from Saroo Brierly's memoir, A Long Way Home, is just as uninterested in these nuances, opting instead for the easily…
Contains more sugar than the candybar.
We all know this is just Google trying to convince us it's okay they're tracking our every move, right?
porra chorei do inicio ao fim compreendi todos os problemas tratados, e se era p sentir raiva de alguém só senti daquele casal que ia botar ele em trabalho escravo, só. nem posso imaginar os pensamentos que existiram na cabeça dele meu deus
We wanted the two of you in our lives. That's what we chose. That's one of the reasons I fell in love with your dad. Because we both felt as if the world has enough people in it. Have a child, couldn't guarantee it will make anything better. But to take a child that's suffering like you boys were. Give you a chance in the world. That's something.
Wow. This part moved me. I aspire to be like this. <3 Also, must watch for dev patel, made me weak in the knees
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." -Andy, The Shawshank Redemption.
Lion directed by Grath Davis is performance driven drama film based on real life incident. The film is packed with powerful performance we deserve to Watch, especially Sunny Pawar. The extremely charming Dev Patel also gives the impactfull performance supported by Nikole Kidman. The Cinematography is brilliant and music original Score is Worthy of Oscar Nomination. The Song at the epilogue is also touchy. Screenplay is loose mostly it looks like two different films in first and second half but manages itself at the climax. Film overall is a Worth Watch.
dev and nicole in a movie together was everything the world needed<3333 also how cute is little sunny pawar😭
What a tear jerker.
I finally decided to show this to a friend of mine and definitely enjoyed the reaction they got from this. I can’t stress enough how amazingly put this film is. It definitely pulls on your heart strings. The fact that I know that it’s a true story as well pains me even more but also brings me tons of happiness. I don’t want to say too much because of spoilers, but this is definitely worth the watch. Please watch with a friend, particularly someone who has tissues and cuddles.. because you’ll be a mess.
Rating
A+
An Australia adopted boy from India realizes that through the internet that he might be able to locate his lost family in this great true story given to us from Garth Davis. Highly recommended.
little Saroo is the sweetest ever, baby 🥺
and older Saroo, hold up 🤪
this was so heartwarming. beautiful
yazz! *･ﾟ✧ 282 films
these are films that really capture what it means to be alive - in my (and commenters’) opinion(s). they always…
Tobias Andersen 7,997 films
Rules: Generate a number (from 1 to x) via: www.random.org
See how many number of films there are in the…
bel 124 films
this is just purely a list of movies that have impacted me and have made me reflect and change my…
Jack Moulton 1,258 films
Members Represented: 2,717
It's simple: Post your #1 ever (no runners-up or ties please) in the comments and I'll add…
Hungkat 238 films
Yea, reeling stuff. This is not necessarily about movies having the best endings but these are the ones that leave…
Malaine 2,018 films
Replicated film poster designs. A (never-ending?) work in progress. This list is getting long so I moved some sections to…
NeverTooEarlyMP 4,925 films
Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. Enjoy!
Hungkat 214 films
I know I started this list on such a MOOD. The random moments of your trivial life can really be…
Top10ner 1,001 films
Official 2020 Edition: Combined the average ratings (Critic's & Users) from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Letterboxd, and then weighted and…
Jens Åge Jakobsen 5,060 films
Does it take you an hour to pick a movie? Do you love all types of movies? Are you ready…
Letterboxd 250 films
The 250 highest-rated narrative feature films of the 2010s, according to the Letterboxd community (as at 1 January 2020).
To…
Jayce Fryman 18,696 films
This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films. This…
