Slumdog Millionaire

- 3 1/2 Eberts

I thought Slumdog was really good. It had three sets of good actors who represented the characters at different stages of their lives. The story was good and the music was great.

Roger really liked it and gave it 4 stars.

The parallel stories of the game show and the flashbacks worked really well.

It was effective as a gangster story, a social expose and a love story. In some ways it was a throwback to the Hollywood movies of the 30's.

The most interesting part of the movie to me was the look at the poverty and life styles in the slums. The English have been gone for over sixty years but it looks like they left Fagin behind. By the way, I knew the answer to the last question.