Lion: Book vs. Movie
Garth Davis's 2016 film Lion adapts Saroo Brierley's book A Long Way Home. Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel play Saroo as a child separated from his family and an adult searching for the home he remembers.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Saroo Brierley
- Year
- 2013
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 28 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Vikas Adam
Saroo Brierley recounts how boarding a train as a small child separates him from his family and leaves him alone in Kolkata. Adoption takes him to Australia, but memories of his first home persist into adulthood. Using satellite images and the landmarks he can still recall, he undertakes a search that forces him to examine what belonging to two families means.
- Director
- Garth Davis
- Writer
- Luke Davies
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 1 hr 58 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham
- Genre
- biographical, drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Five-year-old Saroo falls asleep on a train and wakes far from the brother who was looking after him. After surviving alone in Kolkata, he is adopted by a couple in Tasmania. Years later, a familiar taste revives memories of his first home, sending the adult Saroo into an obsessive search through satellite maps while the people closest to him struggle to understand his distress.
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