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life of pi (2012)

life of pi
Life Of Pi
PG
Adventure
Action
Documentary
Drama
Fantasy

Release Date
November 20, 2012
Director
Ang Lee
Cast
Irrfan Khan , Suraj Sharma , Gérard Depardieu , Rafe Spall , Tabu , Adil Hussain
Runtime
127
Main Genre
Adventure
Writers
David Magee , Yann Martel
Tagline
From Academy Award winning director Ang Lee.

Summary

The film is based on Yann Martel's coming-of-age survival tale. The novel revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger.

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