Slumdog Millionaire

written by: Simon Beaufoy (novel by: Vikas Swarup)
directed by: Danny Boyle

Summer is for blockbusters, and winter is for award winners.

India has their own version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". You win 20,000,000 rupees. Yay! Here we meet Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) who is an 18 year old kid from the slums. And somehow he has gotten one question away from winning the big bucks. Doctors and lawyers hadn't made it that far so is he drug in for questioning to see how exactly he has cheated to make it that far in the game. This is when Jamal tells his story. Every questino that was asked ties directly into his life growing up.

I dont even know how much of the story to go into because all of it is great. I mean thats basically the story right there. We watch Jamal and his brother Salim grow up in the slums. They meet a little girl named Latika, and Jamal spends the rest of his life trying to find her. Ok that's all I'm giving away.

Good lord this is a good movie. I don't know the last real "feel good" movie I've seen, but this is one of them. There aren't too many subtitles because most of the characters speak English. For some reason its rated R here, but i can't figure out why. But i definitely recommend this movie. When we went to see it nobody moved till the credits were over. Thanks too some good ol fashioned Bollywood dancing. Anyway, this is one of the best movies of 2008. Hands down. Go. Go see it.