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Slumdog millionaire [videorecording] / by Boyle, Danny,film director.; Tandan, Loveleen,film director.; Beaufoy, Simon,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)847024; Colson, Christian,film producer.; Mantle, Anthony Dod,1955-director of photography.; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Chheda, Tanay Hemant,actor.; Khedekar, Ayush Mahesh,actor.; Pinto, Freida,1984-actor.; Lonkar, Tanvi Ganesh,actor.; Ali, Rubina,2000-actor.; Mittal, Madhur,actor.; Gajiwala, Ashutosh Lobo,actor.; Ismail, Azharuddin Mohammed,actor.; Kapoor, Anil,1959-actor.(CARDINAL)348240; Khan, Irrfan,1962-actor.; Rahman, A. R.,composer.; Swarup, Vikas.Q & A.(CARDINAL)632281; Celador Films.production company; FilmFour (Firm)(CARDINAL)346669; Fox Searchlight Pictures.film distributor(CARDINAL)341211; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.film distributor(CARDINAL)340075; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )production company;
Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; editor, Chris Dickens ; music, A.R. Rahman.Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shakla, Raj Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan.Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Every chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible questions. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers watch to find out if he can answer the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.MPAA rating: R; for some violence, disturbing images and language.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround; dual layer.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Swarup, Vikas; Orphans; Television quiz shows; Suspicion; Police; Brothers;
Available copies: 63 / Total copies: 83
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The Academy Award for best picture goes to... [videorecording] by Affleck, Ben,1972-film producer,film director,actor.(CARDINAL)646193; Ali, Mahershala,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)787472; Arkin, Alan,actor.(CARDINAL)348089; Ball, Alan,1957-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)382230; Beaufoy, Simon,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)847024; Bening, Annette,actor.; Birch, Thora,actor.(CARDINAL)847768; Boyle, Danny,film director.; Burke, Jim(Producer),film producer.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.(CARDINAL)340080; Chheda, Tanay Hemant,actor.; Clooney, George,film producer.(CARDINAL)529899; Cohen, Bruce,1961-film producer.; Colson, Christian,film producer.; Currie, Brian,1961-screenwriter,film producer.; Dale, J. Miles,film producer.(CARDINAL)601192; Farrelly, Peter,film director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)764898; Faust, Blye Pagon,film producer.; Golin, Steve,film producer.(CARDINAL)843645; Goodman, John,1952-actor.(CARDINAL)344847; Hawkins, Sally,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)690380; Heslov, Grant,1963-film producer.(CARDINAL)786800; Jenkins, Richard,1947-actor.(CARDINAL)543428; Jinks, Dan,film producer.; Keaton, Michael,1951-actor.(CARDINAL)340077; Khedekar, Ayush Mahesh,actor.; McAdams, Rachel,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)546744; McCarthy, Tom,1966-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)787267; Mendes, Sam,film director.(CARDINAL)848019; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.(CARDINAL)686550; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Rocklin, Nicole,1979-film producer.; Ruffalo, Mark,actor.(CARDINAL)357185; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)344061; Singer, Josh,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)788240; Spacey, Kevin,actor.(CARDINAL)347745; Sugar, Michael,film producer.(CARDINAL)340613; Tandan, Loveleen,film director.; Taylor, Vanessa,1978-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)615046; Terrio, Chris,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)482450; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-film director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)351807; Vallelonga, Nick,screenwriter,film producer.; Wessler, Charles B.,film producer.; Binge Box (Firm),publisher.; Celador Films,presenter.; Cinetic Media (Firm),production company.; DDY (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)619180; DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006),presenter.(CARDINAL)340063; FilmFour (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)346669; Fox Searchlight Pictures,presenter.(CARDINAL)341211; GK Films (Los Angeles, Calif.),presenter.(CARDINAL)787683; Innisfree Pictures,production company.; Jinks/Cohen Company,production company.; Participant Media,presenter.(CARDINAL)300208; Smoke House Pictures,production company.; TSG Entertainment,presenter.(CARDINAL)343576; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.;
American beauty: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.Argo: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Željko Ivanek, Titus Welliver, Keith Szarabajka, Bob Gunton, Richard Kind, Richard Dillane, Omid Abtahi, Page Leong, Farshad Farahat, Sheila Vand.Green book: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, P.J. Byrne, Mike Hatton, Von Lewis, Don Stark.Slumdog millionaire: Dev Patel, Tanay Hemant Chheda, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Freida Pinto, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Rubina Ali, Madhur Mittal, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan.Spotlight: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian D'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Paul Guilfoyle, Jamey Sheridan, Len Cariou, Neal Huff, Michael Cyril Creighton, Michael Countryman.The shape of water: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer, Nick Searcy, David Hewlett.American beauty: An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.Argo: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story.Green book: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Inspired by a true friendship.Slumdog millionaire: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Every chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible questions. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers watch to find out if he can answer the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.Spotlight: The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.The shape of water: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (aspect ratios vary by movie).
Subjects: Biographical films.; Buddy films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Historical films.; Road films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); African American composers; African American entertainers; African American musicians; Americans; Child sexual abuse; Intelligence officers; Investigative reporting; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Laboratories; Midlife crisis; Motor vehicle drivers; Orphans; Pianists; Racism; Science; Security classification (Government documents); Suburban life; Suspicion; Television quiz shows; Terrorism;
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