Lion (2016)
2016
118 Minutes
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 set...
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Lion is a brilliantly done drama with fantastic performances and a great score. Read the full review »3 member like this review.
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Beautifully shot, full of emotion and a story that holds your interest right till the end credits. Fantastic film! Read the full review »2 member like this review.
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WHAT I LIKED: Outside of it's amazing cinematography and score - Lion's true story is probably its greatest strength, as it's frankly amazing to consider the journey of this young man and how desperate he must feel. That's particularly the case in... Read the full review »1 member likes this review.
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Lion (2016) is the story of Saroo, a young man who goes looking for his family decades after he is separated from them at a young age. "Lion" is a heartfelt and slow film, but it is incredible and powerful at the same time. The films beautiful sto... Read the full review »0 member like this review.
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Lion proves that through resilience and determination, the seemingly impossible can be achieved. What a story this is! Incredibly remarkable and astonishing. A young Indian boy becomes lost 1600km from his home village. Months later he is adopted... Read the full review »1 member likes this review.
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After being separated from his biological family, a boy (Pawar, Patel) was adopted and raised by an Australian couple (Kidman, Wenham), and twenty-five years later, has decided to search for his long lost loved ones. And there's only one thing tha... Read the full review »1 member likes this review.
