UK/US (2008): Crime/Drama/Music/Romance

Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's (Dev Patel) life. A penniless, 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector (Irrfan Khan) spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika (Freida Pinto), the unforgettable girl he loved and lost.

Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and 60 million viewers are about to find out... The result is the sweeping, stylish, intoxicatingly human experience of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

Based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy. Produced by Christian Colson; directed by Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan (co-director, India). (Celador Films/Film4, Fox Searchlight - Official web site)

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10 nominations, 8 Awards