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# Rating: R
# Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
# DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
# Run Time: 120 minutes

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. source.

Good movie. Original story. A feel good movie. Why was it rated R? Which slums are worst, Baghdad or Mumbai?

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Lewis Hine: Child LaborersLewis Hine

BORN: September 26, 1874 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
DIED: November 3, 1940 Dobbs Ferry, New York.

PROFESSION: Photographer and Sociologist

INTERESTING FACTS:

Hine studied sociology at New York University, Columbia University and University of Chicago.
He became a teacher at Ethical Culture School in New York City. There, he encouraged his students to use photography as a social medium.
In 1908, he left his teaching position and became a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
Hines photographs showed the harsh conditions of child labor, which led to new child labor laws in the United States.
In 1930, Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of The Empire State Building.

LEWIS HINE Art Book contains 50 Photographic Reproductions of Child Labor on Farms and in Factories with descriptive title and date.