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"The story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who 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 (Pinto), 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. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the 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. At the heart of its exuberant storytelling lies the intriguing question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love."

This movie has been getting some incredible buzz and has been winning some of the early awards for Best Film of 2008. It's directed by Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later fame.

Starts Friday at Galaxy Cinema:
(1:15), (4:00), 7:00, 9:35

12/10/2008 11:55:06 AM

i saw this over thanksgiving and it was really good. it had some funny part and some serious parts. as far a showing off india it does a good job. it doesnt make it super nice or super slum but fairly real

12/10/2008 11:58:20 AM

regis looks strange

12/10/2008 12:35:16 PM

that must be meredith viera

12/10/2008 1:27:07 PM

oh

i can see that

12/10/2008 2:36:15 PM

Is that Anwar from Skins?

12/10/2008 2:49:14 PM

yea same person. also the police inspector is the father from namesake

12/10/2008 3:21:57 PM

10/10

12/18/2008 9:42:09 PM

Looks like the Mac vs. PC kid is about to get hugged by the Benny Lava guy.

12/18/2008 10:38:19 PM

12/18/2008 11:18:13 PM

it was an awesome movie, highly recommended. also, Frieda Pinto (pictured above) is a straight knockout.

12/19/2008 8:22:32 AM

yea indian chicks are hott

12/19/2008 11:36:53 AM

saw it last week

shit was dope

i kept thinking jamal looked like michael phelps

i think it was the ears

12/19/2008 4:02:51 PM

Haha, I can see the Phelps resemblance.

12/19/2008 5:31:01 PM

i like when they are in the resturant his brother fills up the water bottle and then glues seal back. im pretty sure they do that all the time in india

12/19/2008 5:36:44 PM

i think this is the best movie i've ever seen.

12/23/2008 12:28:14 AM

Dark Knight, you used to be my favorite movie of the year.

12/23/2008 1:06:04 AM

I really, really enjoyed this movie.

Don't know about "best movie I've ever seen," but it was extraordinary.

12/23/2008 1:24:31 AM

great flick! Saw it last night and was totally enamored. Highly recommended to anyone that enjoys a well-done movie and story.

(as a side note, Crossroads 20 felt compelled to show the trailer for The Wrestler twice. While that was appreciated, they didn't need to bother. I already want to see the flick. Seeing the trailer twice just reminded me twice.)

12/23/2008 1:25:41 AM

^Same thing happened to me there. Pissed me off something fierce.

12/23/2008 1:40:44 AM

Hahah saw that preview twice too! This movie seriously is the best movie I have seen all year! Everyone should check it out.

12/30/2008 5:15:49 PM

saw it last night at galaxy

thoroughly enjoyed

12/30/2008 5:27:59 PM

^^^^ ^^^ ^^ That's what you get for seeing it at Crossroads.

Finally saw it tonight. Really good movie--don't let people tell you that it's like mind-blowingly amazing, because it isn't, but it's really good. I'd definitely recommend it.

12/30/2008 7:45:28 PM

I wanna see it again. But I really want to see the Wrestler.

12/30/2008 7:49:05 PM

and i can't stop thinking about



jesus fucking christ she is beautiful

12/30/2008 7:54:09 PM

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and my take on Jamal was that he looked like an Indian McLovin' without the glasses.

12/30/2008 8:00:17 PM

Saw this over the weekend and it's moved into my favorite movies list. Really enjoyed the whole thing.

1/5/2009 9:47:06 AM

i thought it was pieced together pretty horribly but overall i enjoyed it

1/5/2009 9:47:57 AM

what do you mean "pieced together"? did you not like the game show frame for the movie

1/5/2009 11:13:46 AM

I saw this movie last week. It was OK I guess. It wasn't great by any means. I kind of feel like it is one of those movies that people say they like just so they seem "theatrically cultured."

1/5/2009 12:03:34 PM

the editing just seemed coarse to me with bad transitions

1/5/2009 12:11:25 PM

^^I don't really follow that. It's not really an artsy movie. Do you think people will think they're cultured because it's based on people from India instead of the US?

1/5/2009 1:56:03 PM

I really dunno. I mean, can you honestly tell me that movie was really that good? I am not saying it is BAD, I am simply saying that it is just an average movie. But it is kinda... I dunno, different than what you normally see. I am not a big Indian movie watcher or anything, but most movies that I watch don't flow like that at all.

1/5/2009 8:59:14 PM

i wouldnt say its in the style of bollywood movies. yes its set in india, and yes deals with indian culture. but the movie is directed by the director of Trainspotting

1/6/2009 11:23:51 AM

This is not a stereotypical Bollywood film although there is a dance sequence during the credits. Also, Loveleen Tandan co-directed the film with Danny.

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"In addition to Swarup's original novel Q and A, Boyle has stated that the film was also directly inspired by the following three Bollywood films set in Mumbai: Ram Gopal Verma's Satya (1998) and Company (2002), and Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (2004). Satya and Company, based on the D-Company, both gave "slick, often mesmerizing portrayals of the Mumbai underworld", while the screenplay for Satya was also co-written by Saurabh Shukla, who plays the role of Constable Srinivas in Slumdog Millionaire. Black Friday, based on the 1993 Bombay bombings, featured a "12-minute police chase through the crowded Dharavi slum" that was mimicked in the opening scene of Slumdog Millionaire. Another influence cited by Boyle is Deewaar (1975), which he described as being “absolutely key to Indian cinema.” The film was based on the Bombay gangster Haji Mastan, portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood movie star featured in Slumdog Millionaire and the original presenter for Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

1/6/2009 11:54:36 AM

Holy shit. Just saw this movie tonight at the Colony.

Out of this world good. I mean, brilliant really. One of the best movies I've seen in years.

1/10/2009 1:41:50 AM

this movie was good. not great, but overall an enjoyable film that I'm sure anyone with a pulse can enjoy.

and yeah, Freida is hot

1/10/2009 7:15:37 PM

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"this movie was good. not great, but overall an enjoyable film that I'm sure anyone with a pulse can enjoy."

no, this movie was great.

1/16/2009 4:18:27 PM

I agree it was not bad, but what was great about it?

1/16/2009 4:52:46 PM

I will agree with the good, but not great sentiment. I didn't dislike this movie at all, but I really didn't see what all the big fuss was about. It was a good story and entertaining enough for a couple of hours and that's all I got from it.

1/16/2009 5:12:27 PM

aye...we've crossed into overhype rabbl'd waters... careful men.... them's the bones of the matrix, gladiator and napoleon dynamite...steer around them as to not get tangl'd in the hate

1/16/2009 5:20:14 PM

i do not understand how youz guyz can praise the dark knight and then come and call this film "good, not great".

1/16/2009 5:44:00 PM

because the dark knight was much more than a comic book movie, but this wasn't much more than a love story.

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM. Reason : don't get me wrong, i liked it, but it isn't that great]

1/16/2009 8:11:27 PM

people still watching "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" ?

oh nvm fat lazy people who spend all day watching TV probably do

1/16/2009 8:23:05 PM

I thought it was really good, definitely lived up to the hype.

Not sure if I ranked this ahead of The Wrestler for tops of '08 though, might have to see both again.

But the dancing during the credits was good, haha.

1/17/2009 9:26:07 AM

^^Movie is set in India. People love that shit over there.

1/17/2009 9:51:09 AM

^ A large part of it is in Bangladesh.

1/17/2009 12:00:10 PM

going to see it on Sunday! can't wait!

1/17/2009 2:47:06 PM

what a great film and concept.

Guess who is in love with the main character Jamal? I am.

1/18/2009 10:18:00 PM

this was the best movie i have ever seen. incredible.

[Edited on January 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2009 10:51:37 PM