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Lion
2016PG-131h 58m8.0 / 10
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A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Checked Jul 25, 2026
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Synopsis
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Cast
Dev PatelSaroo Brierley
Rooney MaraLucy
David WenhamJohn Brierley
Nicole KidmanSue Brierley
Abhishek BharateGuddu
Divian LadwaMantosh Brierley
Priyanka BoseKamla Munshi
Deepti NavalSaroj SoodCredits
- Directed by
- Garth Davis
- Written by
- Luke Davies
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $12M
- Box office
- $140.3M
Production
The Weinstein CompanyUnited States
See-Saw FilmsUnited Kingdom
Screen AustraliaAustralia
Aquarius FilmsAustralia
Sunstar EntertainmentAustralia
Themes
adoptionaffectationaustraliabased on novel or bookbased on true storybiographydramaticfamiliar
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