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| |  | Sympathy/Get Well | Home » » » Slumdog Millionaire [Blu-ray] | | | | | | | Description: | | Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love? | | | Features: | |
• Condition: New
• Format: Blu-ray
• AC-3; Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath Zutshi | | Director:
| Danny Boyle | | Format:
| AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Language:
| English, French | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Twentieth Century Fox | | Run Time:
| 120 minutes | | Blu-ray Release Date:
| March 31, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 385 reviews |
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24 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Love over goldJul 20, 2009
By Glenn S. Brauer
"goodwitch"
I saw this movie back in the Christmas season last year with some reluctance. Were it not for a good friend edging me on I probably would not have bothered. I incorrectly sensed that it was just another drippy foreign film about drippy people living on the edge and getting lucky.
Boy was I wrong.
This is such a smart, cleverly woven story with a classic twist--reminding me of Dickens--and all the stuff we love about life, but what's really striking--and I just watched this twice on DVD--is the precious love that is expressed here.
Lump in throat anyone?
Goosey bumps, too?
I just lap it up. Call me a sucker--but I had to re-play the last two minutes over and over again--where our hero brushes his sweetie's scarred cheek...and you either already know or will know the rest. It just kills me every time.The quintessential message is: LOVE OVER $$, GOLD, whatever, ANY DAY!
Amen.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Bogus special featuresOct 05, 2010
By Anna
Do not buy this DVD if you are interested in the special features listed on the box and at the Amazon site. This DVD does not contain the making of, the deleted scenes or the audio commentary. The special features contain only trailers for 4 other movies. The movie is great, but the main reason I bought the DVD was to watch the making of. This false advertisement was a complete disappointment.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
One of my all-time favorite movies; it never gets oldOct 22, 2010
By MoonlightandRoses86
I think this movie is a true masterpiece of cinema. So beautifully woven together - the music, the cinematography, the screenplay, the performances, the art direction, the love story. It all works together on so many levels and this movie touches me more deeply than most of the movies I've seen in my life. I went to see it like five times in the movie theater and I felt as if I had traveled to another place without even leaving my seat! It's that much of a cinematic experience. A LOVELY PIECE OF WORK!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!Aug 12, 2009
By Dottie Randazzo
"Reader of Everything"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ZI8H8H5PVO7I
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Oliver Twist goes to Bombay, and meets Danny BoyleAug 02, 2009
By e. verrillo
I normally can't abide Bollywood, with its predictable plots, overblown sentimentality, and saccharin endings (in which everybody dances). But this movie was a marriage made in heaven -- the realism of growing up in the slums of Bombay plus the all-important final dance number.
In all honesty, I found parts of this movie hard going, and not just because of the violence. Bombay, from the perspective of the have-nots, is something straight out of a nightmare (Charles Dickens, eat your heart out). The only reason the beginning of the film wasn't overwhelming was because Jamal's childhood was meted out in flashbacks, which gave us an occasional rest as well as the assurance that everything might work out after all.
I have to say that even knowing that a happy ending was probably in sight (this was an Indian film, after all), Slumdog Millionaire was nail-bitingly tense. There were moments when I actually wondered if our hero would get the quiz-show answer right, or if he would indeed "get the girl," as heroes generally do. But afterwards, when all was said and done, the images that remained with me were not of the happy dancing masses, but of the tattered, abandoned children of Bombay. It seems that Bollywood is finally growing up.
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