PG-13Lion

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500M
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Play Time: 118 mins
Drama
Lion

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (2016-11-24)
Awards:Nominated for 6 Oscars. 59 wins & 110 nominations total
BoxOffice:$51,738,905
Screen:Saroo Brierley, Luke Davies
Productions: The Weinstein Company, See-Saw Films, Screen Australia, Aquarius Films, Sunstar Entertainment
Production Countries: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Spoken Languages: বাংলা, English, हिन्दी
Lion
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Reviews

djgri

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An interesting true story. Film starts well and ends well. In the middle, there is a rapid acceleration from being a boy to being a man that misses out on a lot of an explanation as to how he ended up being the person he was. Quite boring in the middle of the film, which is a shame s ....

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Reno

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**Lost in India, found in Australia!** Based on the book 'A Long Way Home' that tells the story of a young Indian boy who lost his brother in a railway station in the night and the next morning he woke up thousands kilometers away from home. Not knowing the language or the address ....

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Filipe Manuel Neto

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**A film of great quality, although marked by the duality of the script and by an excessive emotional appeal.** This film, for me, has one big point for it and one big point against it. The point in its favor is that it is consistently based on a true story, and as far as I can te ....

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CinemaSerf

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Though it’s Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman who take top billing, it’s the hugely engaging Sunny Pawar who steals his scenes here as the young Saroo. He’s growing up in rural India with his elder brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate) living fairly hand to mouth with their mother (Khushi Solan ....

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