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Lion

Lion

2016 118 min ★ 8.0 Drama

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.

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Cast

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Saroo Brierley

Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara

Lucy

David Wenham

David Wenham

John Brierley

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Sue Brierley

Abhishek Bharate

Abhishek Bharate

Guddu

Divian Ladwa

Divian Ladwa

Mantosh Brierley

Priyanka Bose

Priyanka Bose

Kamla Munshi

Deepti Naval

Deepti Naval

Saroj Sood

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Noor

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Rama

Details

Director

Garth Davis

Screenplay

Luke Davies

Tagline

"The search begins"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$140,312,928

Production

The Weinstein Company, See-Saw Films, Screen Australia, Aquarius Films, Sunstar Entertainment

Reviews

D

djgri

May 1, 2017

★ 4/10

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 since the young actor was excellent.

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Reno

June 26, 2017

★ 9/10

**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 and the names of his family, he struggled from various threats in the society. After that he got adopted from an Au...

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Filipe Manuel Neto

January 7, 2023

★ 8/10

**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 tell it has been relatively faithful to events. The downside is the fact that it is one of those films that constantly...

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CinemaSerf

March 16, 2025

★ 7/10

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 Solanki) and so the two set off into the city to try to make some cash. Once they arrive, though, the young Saroo is too ...

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