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Over the past few weeks, I had heard great things about the movie Slumdog Millionaire.  Namely that it had won best picture at the Golden Globe awards and also that Rotten Tomatoes got a 95% positive review.  I thought it would be interesting to see, and so last week Lenie and I drove up to Sandy to see it. (There were no showings down here in Utah County).  I have to say I was amazed at how good it was.

The story is of a Indian boy named Jamal who becomes incredibly successful on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.  After answering the second to last question correctly, the show stops for the night and Jamal is apprehended by police who think he is cheating to get the answers.  How could a boy from the slums know so much?  However, as police interogate him, Jamal explains how each answer he gave was known through a life experience he had in the slums of Mumbai.

It was an amazing movie that Lenie and I enjoyed very much.  We are somewhat used to foreign movies, and this one jumps between english and hindi with subtitles.