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nominated for best picture at oscars

I've read all the books, and even though it takes liberties with a few things, I still love it. In this most well-known adaptation, the special effects for the time, the technicolor, the quotable lines, and the simple values of brain, heart, courage, and home are what make it great. It'll always be my favorite!

nominated for best picture at the oscars

want to see this because it was nominated for best picture at the oscars and by NBR

nominated for best picture at the golden globes

I just saw the Broadway touring version of this story in Cleveland. It made me think of this movie again and how much I loved it when I was young. The Sherman Brothers' music (who's career is explored in the new documentary) is still used in the stage version plus new songs. The story is adjusted and just about all of the fantasy sequences are changed. I didn't love the new songs or most of the changes from the movie, but it was still a magical theatrical experience.

Julie Andrews is incredibly charming as Mary Poppins. I always wanted to be Dick Van Dyke as Bert. He's an impishly fun narrator to take you through the story. The kids are classic 1960's Disney live action characters. Tomlinson as the father has a nice character arch. It is because he becomes a more loving family man that the story is so touching. The other supporting players are wonderful as well. And the animation sequences are good fun. Who can forget Bert doing the tap routine with the penguins? Feed the Birds, A Spoonful of Sugar, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, and Let's Go Fly a Kite are such good songs; Mary teaches simple, enjoyable, meaningful life lessons.

nominated for best picture by NBR and at the golden globes

nominated for best picture by NBR, at the golden globes, and at the oscars

Classic, iconic everything!

nominated for best picture at golden globes

Great assemble cast. I'm just not interested in seeing the newest remake cause this was so good. Real danger, adventure, and risk. Interesting dynamics between the group of characters. Hackman as the preacher confused me at first, but I think I understand better now after a repeat viewing. He's an untraditional rogue minister because he does not advocate sitting still and praying, any afterlife should not make it OK for people to give up life without a fight, he wants to work together and push forward to survive.

nominated for best picture by NBR

want to see this because it won best picture with the NBR, the NYFC, and the NSFC, and was nominated for best picture at the golden globes and oscars

want to see this because it won best comedy or musical picture at the golden globes

nominated for best picture at the golden globes

want to see this because it won best comedy or musical picture at the golden globes and was nominated for best picture at the oscars

At the height of Disney's hit making years, this one had it all! And with the combination of Robin William's voice and the shape-shifting abilities of a genie, this movie made references nearly as lightning paced as Family Guy does today.

want to see this because it won best comedy or musical picture at the golden globes

want to see this because it won best picture at the oscars and best drama picture at the golden globes

won best Foreign film from BAFTA

I also really enjoyed this movie even though you can see a lot of the plot coming. The colors are vibrant and even though much of the movie is set in the dusty corrupt slums, where in American gritty urban pics the images are often extremely dark and without color, this movie is always visually interesting. The action is often so fast that colors appear smeared or streaked across the screen and that's not a bad thing. I thought the editing and camera work was done very well especially with the constant flashbacks to different points in Jamal, Salim and Latika's lives. The few adult characters, in particular the game show host, the police interrogators, the gangsters, and the brothers' mother listed here on Flixster, gave solid supporting performances. Dev, Madhur and Freida as the oldest teenage versions of Jamal, Salim and Latika give good performances, but I actually liked the younger actors who played the three main characters better.

The early parts of the movie are filled with both really funny moments that people of any culture could appreciate and troubling tragic moments that are also universal. Jamal, the always good hearted romantic, Salim, the older and opportunistic brother, and Latika, the beautiful girl who Jamal spends his life pursuing are orphaned around the ages of 6-8. They are the Three Musketeers! They have lots of adventures together, but at times the brothers are separated from Latika. Eventually they grow up to be pre/early-teens and the adventures continue. Life on the streets is tough, filled with scams, fleeing from the authorities, and revenge, but Jamal always has the hope that he will find Latika. I recently learned a bit about Charles Dickens and so his famous stories with strong elements of social justice were fresh in my mind when I saw this. All the scenes with the children or pre-teens living on the streets and doing what they can to get by as controlled by a couple local gangsters definitely invoked Dickens, especially Oliver Twist.

It's no spoiler to anyone who has read a little about this movie that Jamal is interrogated on suspicion of cheating to win money on India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. This is where the story begins to unfold. However, all of Jamal's life experiences connected in his mind to his brother or his love help him legitimately pick the right answers. And through the way the script was written and the film was edited it is shown that all three orphans are always linked together to the end. And there are little things you'll notice on repeated viewings. I must say, the movie didn't make me feel a rush of emotions when Jamal and Latika are reunited like I expected it might, but still it is a little movie that has had a long road to the recognition and kudos it has been receiving.

Is it just me, or do filmmakers seem to be making more interesting end credits in these past couple years? When it gets to the more technical positions it still may go to a black screen with white scrolling text, but this movie has a fun Bollywood dance number intercut with the credits for some of the major players working on the film. It helps keep more people in their seats to actually pay attention to who the filmmakers were. Maybe it's just the number of animated movies I've seen this year that is making it seem like Hollywood is getting more creative with credits.