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2008 Fall/Holiday Preview: #10. Slumdog Millionaire

It smacked the ball out of the park for a grand slam homer at Telluride. Critics are calling it this year’s feel good film.
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Slumdog Millionaire

#10. Slumdog Millionaire

Director: Danny Boyle
Writers: Simon Beaufoy  (The Full Monty)
Producers: Christian Colson (The Descent)
Distributor: Fox Searchlight

The Gist: Based on true events, script by Simon Beaufoy this concerns an illiterate street kid from Mumbai who wins the jackpot on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

Fact: Boyle shot on location and in several parts of India. 

See It: It smacked the ball out of the park for a grand slam homer at Telluride. Critics are calling it this year’s feel good film. 

Release Date/Status?: Fox Searchlight snapped this up in a deal with Warner Bros. and will release the picture on November 28th.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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