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Little Buddha

  • 19931993
  • PGPG
  • 2h 3m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
17K
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Little Buddha (1993)
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After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
17K
YOUR RATING
    • Bernardo Bertolucci
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(story)
    • Rudy Wurlitzer(screenplay)
    • Mark Peploe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Keanu Reeves
    • Bridget Fonda
    • Ruocheng Ying
    • Bernardo Bertolucci
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(story)
    • Rudy Wurlitzer(screenplay)
    • Mark Peploe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Keanu Reeves
    • Bridget Fonda
    • Ruocheng Ying
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    • 131User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Keanu Reeves in Little Buddha (1993)
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    Keanu Reeves and Anupam Shyam in Little Buddha (1993)
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    Keanu Reeves
    Keanu Reeves
    • Siddhartha
    Bridget Fonda
    Bridget Fonda
    • Lisa Conrad
    Ruocheng Ying
    Ruocheng Ying
    • Lama Norbu
    • (as Ying Ruocheng)
    Chris Isaak
    Chris Isaak
    • Dean Conrad
    Alex Wiesendanger
    Alex Wiesendanger
    • Jesse Conrad
    Raju Lal
    Raju Lal
    • Raju
    Greishma Makar Singh
    Greishma Makar Singh
    • Gita
    Sogyal Rinpoche
    • Kenpo Tenzin
    Ven. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche
    • Abbot
    Ven. Geshe Tsultim Gyelsen
    • Lama Dorje
    Jo Champa
    Jo Champa
    • Maria
    Jigme Kunsang
    Jigme Kunsang
    • Champa
    Thubtem Jampa
    • Punzo
    Surekha Sikri
    Surekha Sikri
    • Sonali
    T.K. Lama
    • Sangay
    Doma Tshomo
    • Ani-La
    Mantu Lal
    • Mantu
    Mountain Yogi
    • Mountain Yogi
      • Bernardo Bertolucci
      • Bernardo Bertolucci(story)
      • Rudy Wurlitzer(screenplay)
      • Mark Peploe(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      In January 1996, three years after this movie was released, a four-year-old boy from Seattle actually was chosen as the reincarnation of beloved Lama Deschund Rinpochet, and relocated to Nepal, to be groomed as a spiritual teacher.
    • Goofs
      When Raju is playing with the Game Boy you can hear music from Tetris, but it's actually not turned on at all.
    • Quotes

      Lama Norbu: [Narrating] One day Siddhartha heard an old musician on a passing boat speaking to his people.

      Old Musician: If you tighten the string too much it will snap and if you leave it too slack, it won't play.

      Lama Norbu: [continues narrating] Suddenly, Siddhartha realized that these simple words held the great truth, and that in all these years he had been following the wrong path.

    • Crazy credits
      At the very end of the credits, there is a shot of a hand wiping away the sand of the mandala. (Mandalas are brushed away at some point after completion to symbolize Impermanence, one of the tenets of Buddhism).
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Cowboy Way/Beverly Hills Cop III/Renaissance Man/The Flintstones/Little Buddha (1994)

    User reviews131

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    Nothing wrong with slow.
    I certainly disagree with the commentary that calls this movie plotless. I agree that it's slow, but what's wrong with slow? Roger Ebert put the movie down by calling it 'Buddhist Sunday School.' True, the Buddha parts are simplistic, but then so is the original Buddha story. Slow, thoughtful, peaceful, subtly stimulating, and with a plot to end all plots-- the one-ness of all individuality. I much prefer this to the more recent Kundun, which tries to tell essentially the same story. In fact, Scorsese rips this movie off dreadfully, even to the same wiping out of the sand pattern at the end.
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    • wcb
    • Jan 10, 1999

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    • Release date
      • May 25, 1994 (United States)
      • France
      • Liechtenstein
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Kathmandu, Nepal
    • Production companies
      • CiBy 2000
      • Serprocor Anstalt
      • Recorded Picture Company (RPC)
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    • 2 hours 3 minutes
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