After coming within one question of winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" 18-year-old Mumbai "slumdog" Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is arrested on suspicion of cheating. While in custody, Jamal regales a jaded police inspector (Irfan Khan) with remarkable tales of his life on the streets, as well as the story of Latika (Freida Pinto), the woman he loved and lost. Danny Boyle's film won a Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Picture.
This movie was hard to watch. It was a great story, and well directed, but I didn't really like the photography. Some of the sequences in the slums were difficult to watch as the poverty and violence of India's slums were portrayed without apology. Jamal's determination to rise above it all is inspiring but few will be able to relate to him. There is love story in the film, but the abuse of Jamal's girl is again, hard to relate to. The R rating is for the violence and the difficult slum scenes. I would not let younger children see this one. -->Kimball***
Netflix link to Slumdog Millionaire
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