Excellent, But Sort of Boring

Rating: 6/10 (22 September 2017)

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
While this is a great film as far as emotions go, and the lead actors are quite good -- even Rooney Mara reminds us why she is the superior sister -- the general plot is rather boring. That it was nominated so well by the Oscars is odd considering how it is essentially another take on "Philomena", which had just been released a few years before.
The key difference being this is more cross-cultural, as Australia and India are quite different... but the general theme is the same.