Lion (2016)

Movie Details

Original Title Lion

Original Language EN

Budget $12,000,000

Revenue $140,312,928

Status Released

Popularity 3.6

Cast

Dev Patel

Saroo Brierley

Popularity: 7.6

Rooney Mara

Lucy

Popularity: 3.2

David Wenham

John Brierley

Popularity: 1.9

Nicole Kidman

Sue Brierley

Popularity: 4.3

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Abhishek Bharate

Guddu

Popularity: 0.1

Divian Ladwa

Mantosh Brierley

Popularity: 1.1

Priyanka Bose

Kamla Munshi

Popularity: 0.4

Deepti Naval

Saroj Sood

Popularity: 0.2

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Noor

Popularity: 1.1

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Rama

Popularity: 0.7

Sunny Pawar

Young Saroo

Popularity: 0.4

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Keshav Jadhav

Young Mantosh

Popularity: 0.2

Key Crew

Executive Producer Daniel Levin, Harvey Weinstein, Shahen Mekertichian

Screenplay Luke Davies

Director Garth Davis

Editor Alexandre de Franceschi

Producer Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Angie Fielder

Production

The Weinstein Company

See-Saw Films

Screen Australia

Aquarius Films

Sunstar Entertainment

Videos & Trailers

LION - The Journey Home

Featurette

LION Cast Q&A: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Priyanka Bose, Rooney Mara and more | TIFF 2016

Featurette

Lion - 6 Academy Award Nominations

Teaser

Academy Conversations: Lion

Featurette

Lion - "6 Academy Award Nominations"

Teaser

Producer Emile Sherman talks LION

Featurette

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

djgri 4/10

May 1, 2017

An interesting true story. Film starts well and ends well. In the middle, there is a rapid acceleration from being a boy to being a man that misses out on a lot of an explanation as to how he ended up being the person he was. Quite boring in the middle of the film, which is a shame since the young a ... Read more

Reno 9/10

Jun 26, 2017

**Lost in India, found in Australia!** Based on the book 'A Long Way Home' that tells the story of a young Indian boy who lost his brother in a railway station in the night and the next morning he woke up thousands kilometers away from home. Not knowing the language or the address and the names o ... Read more

Filipe Manuel Neto 8/10

Jan 7, 2023

**A film of great quality, although marked by the duality of the script and by an excessive emotional appeal.** This film, for me, has one big point for it and one big point against it. The point in its favor is that it is consistently based on a true story, and as far as I can tell it has been r ... Read more