Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) starring Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal. Orphaned boy Jamal (Patel), on the brink of winning Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", is accused of cheating. Meanwhile, he pursues his lifelong love, Latika (Pinto), who out of poverty has fallen in with gangsters. This film is practically an epic, with the scope of Jamal's life acting as the backdrop. The movie won eight Oscars, including Best Picture. The captions are good, but the original subtitles (part of the movie is in Hindi) are too small to read easily on a TV screen. Grade: B+