Lion
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Film · TMDB
8.0A 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.
Released: 2016-11-24118 minDir: Garth DavisDrama
Cast
- Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley
- Rooney Mara as Lucy
- David Wenham as John Brierley
- Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley
- Abhishek Bharate as Guddu
- Divian Ladwa as Mantosh Brierley
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
8/10
263,268 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
69/100
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 6 Oscars. 59 wins & 110 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Garth Davis
- Screenplay by
- Luke Davies
- Based on
- A Long Way Home , by Saroo Brierley
- Produced by
- Emile Sherman Iain Canning Angie Fielder
- Starring
- Dev Patel Sunny Pawar Rooney Mara David Wenham Nicole Kidman
- Cinematography
- Greig Fraser
- Edited by
- Alexandre de Franceschi
- Music by
- Dustin O'Halloran Hauschka
- Production companies
- The Weinstein Company Screen Australia See-Saw Films Aquarius Films Sunstar Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Transmission Films (Australia) Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom and Ireland)
- Release dates
- 10 September 2016 ( 2016-09-10 ) ( TIFF ) 19 January 2017 ( 2017-01-19 ) (Australia) 20 January 2017 ( 2017-01-20 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
Key dates
- Published
- 19 January 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- lion
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Bangla
- Based on
- A Long Way Home
- Main subject
- disappearance
- Depicts
- train
- Director
- Garth Davis
- Screenwriter
- Luke Davies
Article
Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 nonfiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, set out to find them. It was a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2016, was given a limited release in North America on 25 November 2016 by The Weinstein Company before opening wide on 6 January 2017. It was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017.