Lion

2016 Directed by Garth Davis

The search begins

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

Alternative Titles

A Long Way Home, סארו : הדרך הביתה, Lion – Der lange Weg nach Hause, Lion: Uma Jornada para Casa

drama

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Review by Lucy ★★★★ 3

if this is oscar bait then i guess i'm a fish now because i've been CAUGHT and REELED the fuck IN
Review by lauren ★★★★ 3

i'd be lion if i said dev patel isn't a snack
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 8

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.
Review by Caitlin ★★★½ 1

Dev Angel Patel deserves TWO oscars.... one for each of those magnificently broad shoulders.... and Sunny Pawar deserves all remaining oscars THE END
Review by russman ★★★½ 2

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
Review by Gabi ★★★★ 3

google maps pleas show me the way into dev patel's arms
Review by sree ★★★★★ 2

IF YOU DON'T THINK SUNNY PAWAR DESERVES ALL FIVE OF THESE STARS YOU CAN EAT MY FISTS
Review by Lulu ★★★½

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
Review by starr ✨ ★★★★

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
Review by SilentDawn ★★½ 9

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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…
Review by Kyle Turner ★ 14

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…
Review by 👽hayley👽 ★★★½

wow looks like slum dog turned into slum DADDY (ha ha ha ur so funny hayley ha)

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Incredible, heartbreaking and heartwarming, so touching
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my mom cried the entire time