This is Ang Lee's 2012 3D live-action/computer animated feature film based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel. It received Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and won the Best Director Oscar for Lee. It stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Gerard Depardieu.
This film concerns the amazing life story of Piscine Patel (Pi), an Indian immigrant now living in Montreal Canada which he personally relates to a local novelist who is sure he can turn it into a great book. When Pi was 16 his family moved from India to Canada, taking with them some... of the animals from their family zoo with the intention of selling them once they reached North America. During the journey they run into a heavy storm and the ship sinks. Pi's parents are lost and Pi finds himself stranded on board a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker and a few other animals (an orang-utan a zebra and a hyena) which are very soon killed by the tiger. Pi embarks on a 227 day ordeal; a journey of self-discovery and desperate attempts to survive before washing up on the coast of Mexico.
In another version of the same story, fabricated for the benefit of the ship's insurance agents, Pi tells how he shared the lifeboat with his mother, a sailor and the ships cook (the orang-utan, the zebra the hyena respectively from the original story). In this version Pi is himself Richard Parker. The writer gets to choose which he considers the better story. Remarkably he seems to choose the same one chosen by the insurance agents. Unusually unique storyline, stunning visuals - a must see.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Based on the critically acclaimed, best-selling book, Ang Lee brings one boy's spectacular journey to the big screen in the book that was considered un-filmable... A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor... a fearsome Bengal tiger. Actors Tobey Maguire, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Sonu Sood, Suraj Sharma & Adil Hussain Director Ang Lee Certificate PG Year 2012 Languages English Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.
Ang Lee directs this Academy Award-winning fantasy adventure based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel. Suraj Sharma stars as Pi Patel, a 16-year-old zookeeper's son from Pondicherry who finds himself stranded on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean in the company of a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger following the shipwreck of the freighter on which he and his family were sailing for Canada. Over the course of several months Pi manages to survive on the meagre supplies of food and water he finds on the boat, and also takes up fishing, while in his half-delirious state he muses on various aspects of animal behaviour, religion and the meaning of life. The film won Academy Awards for Best Director (Ang Lee) and Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), as well as an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Mychael Danna) and two BAFTAs.
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