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Times + subscribers can join us at cinemas across the UK on Tuesday, January 10 for exclusive preview screenings of Lion.
Both heart-warming and heart-wrenching, Lion, a front-runner in this year’s awards race with four Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture, is the unforgettable true story of one man's search for home.
Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman alongside newcomer Sunny Pawar. The film is adapted from Saroo Brierly’s own account of a life lost and found.
In Lion, five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train travelling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is itself not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple, and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, he suppresses his past, his emotional need for reunification, and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother. But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his buried yearning. With just a small store of memories and an unwavering determination, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.
Birmingham Broadway Plaza, Bluewater, Bristol - Cinema de Luxe, Cardiff, Derby - Cinema de Luxe, Glasgow Braehead, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool Switch Island, London - Greenwich, Manchester - Printworks, Metrocentre Gateshead, Milton Keynes Stadium, Nottingham, Reading, Southampton, Wimbledon
6pm for 6.30pm start at Odeon cinemas and 6.30pm for 7pm start at Showcase cinemas on January 10