An extraordinary tale about Jamal and how he got to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. From the life in the slums with his older brother, and best friend, to becoming a contestant on the biggest game show in India.
Fox Searchlight and Warner Brother teamed up to take this sleeper hit and turned it into an Academy Award winner. Originally, the movie was only to be released in India, with no hope of making it to the US. When some of the theaters needed more "independent" movie toward the end of the year they pick up this movie and it became an sensation from there. Slumdog Millionaire took home the Best Picture Award over: Paramount's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Universal's Frost/Nixon; Focus Features' Milk; and The Weinstein Company's The Reader.
The title of this film makes it sound like that is a thriller with a lot of shooting and turf wars. I don't know why I thought the title made it sound like that but it did. I could not have been more wrong in my life! This is one of those movies I dreaded watching and ended up loving. This has to be one of my favorite this year. Dev Patel is one of the actors who I very much enjoyed watching last year in my Year of Review challenge and finding out he was in the movie made it all the better. This would be a movie I would suggest anyone to watch.
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