Set in 1979, with punk music in full swing, the Academy Award-nominated screenplay explores the life of a 55-year-old, chain-smoking single mother Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) running a boarding house in Santa Barbara, California.įeeling a loss of connection with her 15-year-old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), she enlists help from a pair of females, artistic tenant Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and the boy’s precocious best friend Julie (Elle Fanning), to help guide him into manhood. Brierley is the most important as he encapsulates his true harrowing tale in a scant eight minutes.Ģ0th Century Women (Lionsgate Home Entertainment, rated R, 118 minutes, 1.99:1 aspect ratio, $34.99) - Independent filmmaker Mike Mills found a legendary leading lady to helm a coming-of-age film last year that is now available to home theaters. Specifically, only a series of five vignettes (roughly 22 minutes in total) with key folks from the film including Mr.

The flat, too-naturalistic soft focus of the transfer often clouds the potential visual smorgasbord.īest extras: Surprisingly, viewers do not get much bonus content for such an acclaimed effort. I would have appreciated much more clarity and color in showcasing the sweeping landscape shots from cinematographer Greig Fraser highlighting the impressive terrain in both India and Australia. The digital transfer never does the film’s locations justice. The movie also points out that over 80,000 children go missing in India each year often exploited in human trafficking, a shocking and unacceptable statistic.īy the way, for those wondering, the film title refers to Saroo’s real name Sheru (he mispronounced it during most of his life) that translates as “lion” in Hindi. Davis reveals at the end of the film a real meeting between the mothers, introduced to each other by Saroo. However, as an adult, he (now played by Dev Patel) yearns to find his origins, and, after prodding from friends as well as some help from Google Earth, Saroo begins an odyssey to locate his Indian birth mother, brother and sister.Īlthough viewers will find many moments to shed a tear in the performances, none is more poignant than when Mr.

Luckily, a loving Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham), eventually adopt Saroo and help him lead a less-stressful life.

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