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Life of Pi

  • 20122012
  • PGPG
  • 2h 7m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
620K
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Life of Pi (2012)
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.
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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 Be... Read allA 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.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.
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
620K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,881
71
  • Director
    • Ang Lee
  • Writers
    • Yann Martel(novel)
    • David Magee(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Suraj Sharma
    • Irrfan Khan
    • Adil Hussain
Top credits
  • Director
    • Ang Lee
  • Writers
    • Yann Martel(novel)
    • David Magee(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Suraj Sharma
    • Irrfan Khan
    • Adil Hussain
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1KUser reviews
    • 568Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 81 wins & 135 nominations total

    Videos9

    Winner: Best Director
    Trailer 2:38
    Winner: Best Director
    International Version
    Trailer 2:30
    International Version
    No. 1
    Trailer 2:17
    No. 1
    "I Would Have Died by Now"
    Clip 0:42
    "I Would Have Died by Now"
    "The Tiger"
    Clip 0:52
    "The Tiger"
    "Flying Fish"
    Clip 1:26
    "Flying Fish"
    "Ang Lee's Pedigree"
    Featurette 2:34
    "Ang Lee's Pedigree"
    "Impossible Journey"
    Featurette 2:30
    "Impossible Journey"
    Life of Pi
    Featurette 2:15
    Life of Pi

    Photos206

    Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Forrest Harding in Life of Pi (2012)
    Forrest Harding and Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Forrest Harding in Life of Pi (2012)
    Forrest Harding and Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Forrest Harding and Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi (2012)
    Ang Lee in Life of Pi (2012)
    Ang Lee, Tabu, and Suraj Sharma at an event for Life of Pi (2012)
    Tom Hiddleston at an event for Life of Pi (2012)

    Top cast

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    Suraj Sharma
    Suraj Sharma
    • Pi Patel
    Irrfan Khan
    Irrfan Khan
    • Adult Pi Patel
    Adil Hussain
    Adil Hussain
    • Santosh Patel
    Tabu
    Tabu
    • Gita Patel
    Ayush Tandon
    • Pi Patel (11-12 Years)
    Gautam Belur
    • Pi Patel (5 Years)
    Ayaan Khan
    • Ravi Patel (7 Years)
    Mohd. Abbas Khaleeli
    • Ravi Patel (13-14 Years)
    Vibish Sivakumar
    • Ravi Patel (18-19 Years)
    Rafe Spall
    Rafe Spall
    • Writer
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Cook
    James Saito
    James Saito
    • Older Insurance Investigator
    Jun Naito
    Jun Naito
    • Younger Insurance Investigator
    Andrea Di Stefano
    Andrea Di Stefano
    • Priest
    Shravanthi Sainath
    Shravanthi Sainath
    • Anandi
    Elie Alouf
    • Mamaji
    Padmini Ramachandran
    • Dance Master
    T.M. Karthik Srinivasan
    • Science Teacher
    • (as T.M. Karthik)
    • Director
      • Ang Lee
    • Writers
      • Yann Martel(novel)
      • David Magee(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Ang Lee hired Steven Callahan as a "nautical consultant." In 1982, Callahan survived 76 days adrift on a rubber lifeboat in the Atlantic after his sailboat sank.
    • Goofs
      When the ship rolls in the storm, the bedroom where Pi and his brother are sleeping is perfectly still.
    • Quotes

      Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits are also in 3D.
    • Connections
      Featured in Maltin on Movies: Life of Pi (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      Pi's Lullaby
      Music by Mychael Danna

      Lyrics by Bombay Jayashri

      Performed by Bombay Jayashri

      Produced by Mychael Danna

    User reviews1K

    Review
    Top review
    The most imaginative film this year
    ''I had to tame him,'' (Pi) realizes. ''It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat." From Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

    You will see no more imaginative film this year than Life of Pi, whose conceit of a young Indian boy stranded with a Bengal Tiger in a lifeboat amid the Pacific Ocean is fantastical yet real in its metaphoric implications. While the framing device of a story told to a stranger uses the old flashback, the lonely lifeboat is as new as any story told in the last century.

    The film begs interpretation from the multiplicity of religions to the place of mankind in a hostile, Darwinian world. Ultimately the benign brotherhood of beasts and humans is affirmed not so much by lofty philosophy but by the necessity of man and beast working together to survive.

    The digital rendering of animals, especially the Bengal Tiger, is beautiful to behold. The opening scene in Pi's family zoo could be right out of Terence Malick's visionary camera, a montage of nature gorgeous in its simplicity. The several formalistic shots of the boat at night are worthy of the best lighting in the best aquariums in the world. Together with the impressive use of 3D, director Ang Lee has visually taken us from the opulence of Crouching Tiger and the minimalism of Brokeback Mountain into a fusion world of fancy and reality. The images are stunning.

    In the end, Lee is interested in the individual's place in the universe as he struggles to harness nature and yet live in harmony with these elements. The conflict with the gross cook aboard the Japanese cargo ship taking Pi's family and animals to Canada is emblematic of the challenges facing the gifted with the groundlings. Pi's relationship with tiger "Richard Parker" represents all mankind's struggle to live in harmony with the forces it cannot control.

    "Believing in everything is the same as believing in nothing," says Pi's father because Pi samples religions from Hinduism and Buddhism to Catholicism and Judaism and wants them all. Although it is not given to us to have them all, Pi's piety practically makes us believers in the universal brotherhood.

    The Life of Pi is everyone's life; the film is one of the best of the year and, even remembering the greatness of The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, and Billy Budd, the best you will ever see about a boy, a tiger, and a boat.
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    • jdesando
    • Nov 21, 2012

    FAQ9

    • Is this a "preachy" movie?
    • What is the true meaning of Richard Parker?
    • Did "God" sank the boat because Pi was tempting him?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 21, 2012 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Taiwan
      • United Kingdom
      • Canada
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Hindi
      • Japanese
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Cuộc Đời Của Pi
    • Filming locations
      • Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Production companies
      • Fox 2000 Pictures
      • Dune Entertainment
      • Ingenious Media
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $120,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $124,987,023
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $22,451,514
      • Nov 25, 2012
    • Gross worldwide
      • $609,016,565
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 7 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Atmos
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • Sonics-DDP
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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