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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 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
Summaries. A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family.
Feb 26, 2017 · The True Story Behind 'Lion' : How Lost Child Saroo Brierley Found His Birth Mother More Than 20 Years Later
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Nov 21, 2016 · The Lion movie true story reveals that a 5-year-old Saroo survived by himself on the streets of Calcutta for three weeks, until he was taken to a police station and eventually placed into a local orphanage. The movie lengthens his time on the streets to two months.
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted...
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- Garth Davis
- PG-13
- Dev Patel
Nov 25, 2016 · Brierley’s journey to find his family in India is the subject for The Weinstein Co’s “Lion,” a movie due out November 25 that is a likely Oscar contender.
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“Lion” is an epic, emotional whirlwind of a movie: a hopeful, devastating, and ultimately immensely human film about one man’s quest to uncover his identity. In the film, a young Indian boy, Saroo, is separated from his family at age 5, sent hurtling by himself on an empty passenger train that takes him 1,000 miles from his home.
