Director Garth Davis' adaptation of Brierley's memoir starts off strong, with the charming, big-eyed Pawar playing adorable young Saroo. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.īe prepared to cry - a lot - at this wonderfully cast tearjerker about a man who searched for his birth family across a continent, with only decades-old memories to guide him. And underlying everything are powerful lessons about perseverance, gratitude, family bonds, and the power of technology. Adults (twentysomethings) drink at dinner parties, restaurants, and at home there's also cigarette smoking and infrequent strong language ("s-t," "ass," etc.). When the action switches to Saroo's adulthood, there are scenes of implied sex (he and his girlfriend are in bed, half dressed) and passionate kissing. Children are shown in danger - including a disturbing scene in which homeless children are abducted as they sleep, one in which young Saroo is physically inspected in a creepy manner, and others in which he's forced to live on the streets with no shelter or food. Based on Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home, the movie chronicles how Saroo ( Dev Patel) used Google Earth to track down his birth family after a 25-year separation. Parents need to know that Lion is an emotional biographical drama about Saroo Brierley, who was lost to his family in India at age 5 after ending up on a train bound more than 1,000 kilometers away from his hometown.
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