A very dangerous love blossoms in Oscar-winning SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle, 2008)
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Harbor View Lawn
Thursday, July 19, free, 6:00
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In modern-day Mumbai, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is being brutally interrogated by a police inspector (Irrfan Khan) who is certain that Jamal is cheating on the popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The cop won’t even consider that a young, uneducated chaiwalla, a lowly tea server at a call center, could possibly know enough to be successful on the program. But through a series of harrowing flashbacks, Jamal recounts his difficult, miserable life growing up on the streets with his brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal), explaining how his experiences with extreme poverty, bigotry, child abuse, and gang violence led him to know certain answers in fascinating, bizarre, and mostly sad ways. As he approaches the final question, everything he’s ever loved and believed in hangs in the balance. Slumdog Millionaire is extremely well directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later), with a smart script by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A. Freida Pinto makes a strong debut as Latika, the girl who comes between the two brothers, and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is wonderfully smarmy as Prem Kumar, the Indian Regis Philbin. A mesmerizing, edge-of-your-seat tale, Slumdog Millionaire was the sleeper hit of 2008 until it won four Golden Globe awards and went on to take home eight Oscars, including Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Slumdog Millionaire is screening for free on July 20 in Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the summer Movies with a View series, preceded by a DJ set by Emch Subatomic and Àlex Lorca Cercos’s short film Odysseus’ Gambit.