Winner, People's Choice Award, 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

"A buoyant hymn to life [...] a movie to celebrate." - TIME Magazine

"The runaway smash [of the Telluride Film Festival] was Danny Boyle's exhilarating, madly entertaining drama." - Variety

"There's never been anything like this densely detailed phantasmagoria -- groundbreaking in substance, damned near earth-shaking in style." - Wall Street Journal

Eighteen-year-old orphan Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector (Irrfan Khan) begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out...

DIR Danny Boyle; CO-DIR Loveleen Tandan (India); SCR Simon Beaufow, based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup; PROD Christian Colson. UK, 2008, color, 120 min. In English and Hindi with English subtitles. RATED PG

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