Lion (2016)

In 1986 5 year old Saroo Brierley fell asleep on a train in northern India, it took him more then 1600 miles from his home and authorities were never able to determine where that was as young Saroo confused the name of a local shop with the name of his village. Eventually Saroo was adopted by a nice Australian family and grew up in Tasmania and had a nice life, only he never forgot his biological family and 25 years after his disappearance was finally able to reunite with them. I find that I liked this store more then I liked this movie, it is well done, it is sometimes inspiring, but it is slow and long and doubtless better suited as the book its based on then as a film. Dev Patel plays the grownup Saroo, because of course he does, Rooney Mara plays his girlfriend and Nicole Kidman plays his mom, Patel and Kidman were both Oscar nominated and the film got a best picture nod as well. ***