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118 minEN24 November 2016 8.0
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.
Budget: $12,000,000Box Office: $140,312,928
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What People Say

djgri
An interesting true story. 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.
Laura Taylor
Moreover, stunning visuals that complement the story perfectly. An emotional gut-punch in the best sense.
CinemaSerf
Fortune smiles on him, despite the fact that, and to Australia he goes where he is adopted by Sue (Kidman) and husband John (David Wenham) and now morphs into Dev Patel. Despite his comfortable life and his love for his adopted parents, he still pines for his family in India - so sets about trying to put together what he knows, remembers and can glean from Google maps. He’s happy enough there, moves to Melbourne and meets Lucy (Rooney Mara) still he’s becoming more and more restless.

Viewer Opinions (8)

CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967
★★★★☆ 7.0
Despite his comfortable life and his love for his adopted parents, he still pines for his family in India - so sets about trying to put together what he knows, remembers and can glean from Google maps. Fortune smiles on him, despite the fact that, and to Australia he goes where he is adopted by Sue (Kidman) and husband John (David Wenham) and now morphs into Dev Patel. …
16 March 2025VerifiedUser Review
Filipe Manuel Neto@FilipeManuelNeto
★★★★☆ 8.0
from a technical perspective that it's not particularly pleasant having to watch a movie that almost forces you to have a box of Kleenex next to you from start to finish. It so happens that, one day, things go truly wrong and Saroo – that's the child's name – ends up trapped in a train that starts moving, taking him to new places, and separating him from his brother and family. Lost, not knowing how to get back in touch, he ends up in an orphanage. …
7 January 2023VerifiedUser Review
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