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Lion

2015 · Drama · Garth Davis · 1h 58m

A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.

  • Strongly realistic

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Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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